Alejandro Jodorowsky

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1929 age 0

   Born

2. 1973 age 44

   CreditThe Holy Mountain

   CreditThe Holy Mountaincostume designer

   CreditThe Holy Mountaindirector

   CreditThe Holy Mountainfilm editor

   CreditThe Holy Mountainproducer

   CreditThe Holy Mountainscreenwriter

• RRRichard Rutowski1 title
• DCDon Cherry1 title
• HSHoracio Salinas1 title
• DSDavid Silva1 title
• JFJuan Ferrara1 title
• BSBlanca Sánchez1 title
• AKAllen Klein1 title
• RCRafael Corkidi1 title

• Studied under

  • ÉDÉtienne Decroux

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  Photo:Lionel AllorgeCC BY-SA 3.0

• "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."

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three—"Hobbit 1," "Hobbit 2," "Hobbit 3." Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When we didn't make the picture, Dan O'Bannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didn't get to do "Dune." And when he came out he wrote the script for "Alien." "Alien" was the reaction to not doing "Dune." Who would believe that? But it's true!

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• For art to be art it has to cure.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is useless to know the future if one ignores who one is here in the moment. (...) The more I advance, the more I notice that all problems stem from the genealogy tree. To enter into a person's difficulties is to enter into his family, to penetrate the psychological atmosphere of his domestic milieu. We are all marked, not to say contaminated, by the psychomental universe of our people. A number of people have associated with them a personality that is not theirs, one that is borrowed from one or more members of their emotional environment. To be born into a family is to be, if I may say it this way, possessed. This possession is transmitted from generation to generation: the enchanted becomes the enchanter in projecting onto his children what was projected onto him—unless an awakening comes to break the cycle. (...) For the awakening to become operable, I must make the person act, lead them to commit a very precise act, but I must do so without taking charge or assuming the role of

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0