Alejandro Jodorowsky People Quotations

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,

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.

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