Luis Buñuel Quotes

“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”

“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus”

“I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.”

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

“A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made. (Un paranoico como un poeta, nace, no se hace)”

“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.”

“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.”

“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”

“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.”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance.”

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

“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.”

“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.”