Bunuel Quotes

#1. Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

Roberto Benigni

#2. I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Kevin McCloud

#3. Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

Carlos Fuentes

#4. My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

Alex Winter

#5. I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

Luchino Visconti

#6. Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.

Ingmar Bergman

#7. Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Giancarlo Esposito

#8. The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Luis Bunuel

#9. Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Luis Bunuel

#10. A life without memory is no life at all

Luis Bunuel

#11. I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Luis Bunuel

#12. Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,

Luis Bunuel

#13. Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

Luis Bunuel

#14. I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Luis Bunuel

#15. I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

Luis Bunuel

#16. Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

Luis Bunuel

#17. The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

Luis Bunuel

#18. The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

#19. I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Luis Bunuel

#20. Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Bunuel

#21. Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel

#22. If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. 'Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,' I'd reply, 'so I can go on drinking and smoking!'

Luis Bunuel

#23. Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

Luis Bunuel

#24. Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Luis Bunuel

#25. Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Luis Bunuel

#26. Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Luis Bunuel

#27. Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

Luis Bunuel

#28. Don't ask me my opinions on art, because I don't have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating.

Luis Bunuel

#29. If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Luis Bunuel

#30. If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Luis Bunuel

#31. A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Luis Bunuel

#32. Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

Luis Bunuel

#33. I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Luis Bunuel

#34. I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

Luis Bunuel

#35. God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Bunuel

#36. A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Luis Bunuel

#37. Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Luis Bunuel

#38. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Luis Bunuel

#39. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

Luis Bunuel