Luis Buñuel citations

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”