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
doctors exquisite form invented known
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
aspect change minute prove single
If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
atheist thank-god atheism
Thank God I'm an atheist.
years horror graves
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.
mind mental-illness poet
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
drinking order smoking
If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
memories waiting finals
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
people majority blind
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
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.
funny cheese-sandwiches 50th-birthday
Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese
queens weather smoking
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.
alive world essentials
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
atheist thanks
I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
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.