Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

There are two voices: the first says write; the second hardly speaks, but I know what he wants. And if I let him, nothing would get done. He hovers at the edges.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

When in doubt, stand still.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?