221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Si la vida te dio un don, tienes que devolverle a la vida un 10%.

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating...... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

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 error está permitido, siempre que se cometa una sola vez y dentro de una búsqueda sincera de conocimiento. Ésa es la condición humana: el hombre busca el conocimiento