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Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel portoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France.

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Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

Blind, Deaf, Like, Majority, People

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Atheism, Atheist, God, Thank, Thank God

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.

Life, Memories, Remembrance, Pieces, Coherence

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.

Curiosity, Destiny, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Happiness, Mystery

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Believe, Believes, Contrary, Forget, Live, World

Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.

Degrees, Hands, Semishort, Surrealist, Two, Varying

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.

Fortunately, Freedom, Imagination, Kill, Lying, Science

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.

Chance, Dream, Feelings, Laughter, Love, Science

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.

Horror, Newspapers, Ten, Years

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

50Th Birthday, Age, Cheese, Cheese Sandwiches, Funny, Unless

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Art, Element, Elements, Essentials, Mystery

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

Drinking, Order, Smoking, Good, Lungs

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

Bloodshed, Country, God, Oppression, Teamwork

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Alive, Change, Essentials, Nonconformity, World, Writer

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

Dark, Eye, Future, See, Sit, Wall

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Atheist, God, Religion, Thank, Thank God

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

Conquest, Feeling, Feelings, Help, Helping, Struggle

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Art, Crafts, Elements, Mystery, Works

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.

Found, Give, Giving, Kill, Men, Thinking

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Atheist, Thank God, Atheism, Thank, God

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