Chilean - Director | February 17, 1929 -
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
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Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
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It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
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You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
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I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
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I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.
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I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
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Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
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Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
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Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
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In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
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