221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'

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

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.