Chilean - Director | February 17, 1929 -
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
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I am still radical!
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I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.
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When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
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I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.
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In order to be something, you must do something.
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We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
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When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
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For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
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For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
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I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
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