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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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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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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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
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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.'
