Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowky (born 1929-02-07) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. Born in Chile, he became a Mexican citizen and was later naturalized as French.

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• I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.
  • Anarchy and Alchemy: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Ben Cobb (2007) p.115.

• I like violence. I love violence! I hate the weak person who go to art and say "Oh, that hurt me... that image!" Why to make picture for that person? They are blind. Poetry is violent. This is the reality. There is so much in a violent world... they don't want to see that. I am in the middle of violence. I am in the middle of the screen of television now. There I am.
  • Interview with Jonathan Ross, 1990^{[specific citation needed]}