Luis Buñuel

“Imagination is our only weapon against reality.”

“Thank God I'm an atheist.”

“Sex without religion is like cooking an egg without salt. Not the same thing.”

“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.”

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives.”

“In a world as unjust as this, you have to be a little unjust to be just.”

“I am against all kinds of bourgeois morality.”

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

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom.”

“The cinema is an instrument of poetry.”

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”

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

“I'd give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I'd kill a man who thinks he's found it.”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.”

“The screen is a dangerous and wonderful instrument, if a free spirit uses it.”