Alejandro jodorowsky

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy...

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

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

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

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

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you...

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.