Luis Buñuel quotes

Luis Buñuel was a Spanish surrealist filmmaker renowned for his innovative and provocative movies. His films often challenged conventional morality and featured dreamlike, fantastical imagery. He is considered one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Here are 20 of his quotes:

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. (Luis Buñuel)
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus. View quote
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
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Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. View quote
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If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. View quote
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. View quote
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Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. View quote
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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. View quote
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. (Luis Buñuel)
I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest. View quote
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I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish. View quote
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A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made. (Un paranoico como un poeta, nace, no se hace) View quote
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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. View quote
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. View quote
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The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance. View quote
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Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. View quote
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A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made. View quote
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I am an atheist, thanks be to God. View quote
Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel - Image
Occupation: Spanish Director
Born: February 22, 1900
Died: July 29, 1983
Quotes count: 20
Wikipedia: Luis Buñuel

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