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

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.

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.

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

Thank God I'm an atheist.

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

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