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Fantastic Jodorowsky interview surfaces

A wonderful interview with visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky turned up in Arthur recently. It's an inspirational glimpse into the mind of a truly amazing artist, well worth delving into if you'd like a chance to brush up against a man who clearly has his finger on the pulse of creation.

Q: Can you know that it’s going to happen?

I don’t suffer to write it. But when I need to write a new series, a new album, for three days I do nothing. The only thing I can do is to see movies, see television, read . . . Because I am as if paralyzed! Suddenly, [with relief] the idea comes. I say thank you, because I am grateful. I am really grateful because I received the idea. But I don’t construct the idea. I am not a constructor. I receive the idea.

Q: Where do you think it comes from?

The unconscious. It comes directly from the unconscious. I think the unconscious is a very, very enormous universe, no? And when you open the doors to the unconscious, you start to receive. Sometimes you see a terrible vision of yourself: desires you don’t want to have, ideas you detest, feelings that hurt you. When you open the door, you can see yourself in a very weird way, like a bad trip on LSD. You can have that. You have all the hell, and paradise, no? You need to have the courage to open the doors.

[Via Technoccult]

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bof. : 2010-02-13 15:50:06
maybe it is a collective (un)conscious whence all ideas come
bill. : 2010-02-05 17:44:23
Maybe he could still take credit for his unique ideas, seeing as they are coming from *his* unconscious, and he has learned how to open his doors, and be patient for them, and integrate these ideas with his conscious artistic decisions. But I guess it's a great way for the ego to give credit to the rest of himself. (And maybe to the T.V, shows, in case they contained some structures that might've help his own ideas to pop out).

Thanks for the link, an interesting guy!

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