221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.

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.

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.