Quotes from Luis Bunuel

Imposible beber sin fumar

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. 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.

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

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. 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.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

Thank God I'm an atheist!

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

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.

A life without memory is no life at all

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese