“Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.” NeedsPersonsDifferentDifferencesOne DayNormalNormality Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.” NeedsMindHeartArtRealRealityMovingSeeingMysteryFrontsSittingEnormousGreat ArtMoving InTrance Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.” IfsNeedsMindWarHumanityIndividualDifferencesSolutionsCrisisCollectives Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.” ThinkingWayNeedsPersonsYoungLeftLanguageSidesImaginationBrainSilenceUniversityIntuitionRationalSymbols Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“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.” KnowsWorldNeedsFirstsWellsPersonsHelpingBigsDiesBornKnow HowDyingMovementThis WorldWingsFlyingEnormousDo You KnowButterflyApocalypseWormsFlying Saucers Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“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.” IfsWantNeedsTryingYearsArtImportantFightingFailingAmbitionFantasticImmortal Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“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.” KnowsNeedsNightPiecesPlanetsTvsNewsIllOptimisticEvery NightNegativityGood NewsBeing OptimisticMadrid Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
