Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

I'm always willing to help out when people have stories and they bring them to me. I also like the completely fun films like 'Patti Cake$.' My taste is, if it feels like it's something I'd like to see, then I'll get behind it.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.