221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

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.

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

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.