Luis Bunuel
Luis Bunuel
Luis Buñuel Portoléswas a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 February 1900
CountrySpain
roots cinema subconscious
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
atheist thank-god atheism
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
couple doors eggs
Salvador Dalí 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.
wall eye dark
I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.
dream years two
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.'
oscars receiving disgusting
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,
destiny curiosity fundamentals
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.
dream laughter science
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.
hands two bills
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.
atheist thank-god atheism
Thank God I'm an atheist.
funny cheese-sandwiches 50th-birthday
Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese
atheist thanks
I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
mind mental-illness poet
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
depressing time alcohol
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.