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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
— Luis Bunuel
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Luis Bunuel
film director, screenwriter, actor, film editor, writer, composer, poet, film producer, photographer, director
1900 – 1983
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's works are known for their avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary.
All Quotes by Luis Bunuel
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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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.
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Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
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I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.
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The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance. (The golden age)
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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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.
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
— Luis Bunuel