Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

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

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

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.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.