Quotes from Luis Bunuel

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

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.

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

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.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

A life without memory is no life at all

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

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.

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.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Si me dijeran: te quedan veinte años de vida, ¿qué te gustaría hacer durante las veinticuatro horas de cada uno de los días que vas a vivir?, yo respondería: dadme dos horas de vida activa y veinte horas de sueños, con la condición de que luego pueda recordarlos; porque el sueño sólo existe por el recuerdo que lo acaricia.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

La ciencia no me interesa. Me parece presuntuosa, analítica y superficial. Ignora el sueño, el azar, la risa, el sentimiento y la contradicción, cosas todas que me son preciosas.

Of course, fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so their confusion is a matter of only relative importance.