Bunuel Quotes

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. (Alex Winter)
Waters might, once upon a time, have been a candidate to be the American Buñuel, especially when he had the raw hatred of Divine under his command... View quote
John Waters
What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel - each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin - comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. View quote
Kevin McCloud
I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director. View quote
Luchino Visconti
Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way. View quote
Roberto Benigni
My master in film, Buñuel, was a far greater storyteller than I. It was just that in my films miracles occur on the screen. View quote
Michael Powell (director)
My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing', which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens (e. g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out). In that version of this process, you discover a value in the absence of something ­– in fact you discover that the absence of something is the revelation of something else (Buñuel, the film-maker, said, "Every object conceals another" View quote
Brian Eno