Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Romantic
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Movies
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Space
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Imagination
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Attitude
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Religion
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Age
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Imagination
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Poetry
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic. -Alejandro Jodorowsky Morning
