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
atheist thank-god atheism
Thank God I'm an atheist.
atheist thank-god atheism
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
doctors exquisite form invented known
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
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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
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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.
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I am an atheist, thanks be to God.