Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.”

“I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.”

“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!”

“My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.”

“I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like...”

“I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.”

“We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.”

“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 imag...”

“Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.”

“Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.”

“Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.”

“I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.”

“I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.”

“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.”

“We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.”

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

“Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.”

“Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains...”

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

“I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.”