Luis Bunuel Quotes

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

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

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.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

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

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.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

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

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

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

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

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

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

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

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.

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

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

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

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

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.