Quotes from Luis Bunuel

For me, it was a film about passion, l'amour fou, the irresistible force that thrusts two people together, and about the impossibility of their ever becoming one.

Eroticism is a diabolic pleasure that is related to death and rotting flesh.

Tengo que confesar aquí que la admiración que me merece el teatro de Lorca es más bien escasa. Su vida y su personalidad superaban con mucho a su obra, que me parece a menudo retórica y amanerada.

Añadiré —Dalí me lo hizo observar— que los surrealistas eran guapos.

Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.

I've always believed that the imagination is a spiritual quality that, like memory, can be trained and developed.)

But that the white eye-lid of the screen reflect its proper light, the Universe would go up in flames.

El bar es para mí un lugar de meditación y recogimiento, sin el cual la vida es inconcebible.

El profesor señala con el dedo a un alumno y le dice: «¡Refúteme a Buñuel!» Y es cuestión de dos minutos.

Si tuviera que enumerar todas las virtudes del alcohol, no acabaría nunca.

Muy nervioso, como es de suponer, yo me situé detrás de la pantalla con un gramófono y, durante la proyección, alternaba los tangos argentinos con Tristán e Isolda. Me había puesto unas piedras en el bolsillo, para tirárselas al público si la película era un fracaso.

Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

I am the only one who hasn't changed. I remain Catholic and atheist, thank God.

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 Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

I love dreams, even when they're nightmares, which is usually the case. My dreams are always full of the same familiar obstacles, but it doesn't matter. My amour fou—for the dreams themselves as well as the pleasure of dreaming—is the single most important thing I shared with the surrealists.

sobre García Lorca) Podía leer cualquier cosa, y la belleza brotaba siempre de sus labios. Tenía pasión, alegría, juventud. Era como una llama.

No one's really interested in other people's dreams, so I won't dwell on the subject, although I find it impossible to explain a life without talking about the part that's underground—the imaginative, the unreal.

More than anything else, surrealism was a kind of call heard by certain people everywhere—in the United States, in Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia—who, unknown to one another, were already practicing instinctive forms of irrational expression.

The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself.

No matter what the cost, I wanted to stay a surrealist.

In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.

Buenazo, imprevisible, aragonés de Huesca, estudiante de Medicina que nunca aprobó un examen, hijo del director de la Compañía de Aguas de Madrid, ni pintor, ni poeta, Pepín Bello no fue nada más que nuestro amigo inseparable

La memoria es invadida constantemente por la imaginación y el ensueño, y puesto que existe la tentación de creer en la realidad de lo imaginario, acabamos por hacer una verdad de nuestra mentira.