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

--

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.”

Source : William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition
“So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.”
“We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.”
“In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.”
“Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.”
“Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be in the interest of the American free laborer or for the servile laborer from China... You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beer, alongside a man who can live on rice.”

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