Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
'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.'
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
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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.'
