Quotes from Alejandro Jodorowsky

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

El topo es un animal que cava galerías bajo la tierra buscando el sol y a veces su camino lo lleva a la superficie: cuando ve el sol, queda ciego.

He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.

Es dificil que alguien te rompe el corazon. Generalmente eres tu mientras tratas de meterlo a la fuerza en donde sabes bien que no cabe

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

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.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.