


Luis Buñuel, to my mind the greatest and most ingenious of the Surrealists, was as fervent and consistent in his rejection of the moral hypocrisy of the most guarded tenets upheld by religion and bourgeois conventionality as he was emphatic in his embrace of the elegance of chance, the power of the imagination, and his love of the power of all things subversive. If I have a soft spot for any one of my movies, it would be for The Phantom of Liberty, because it tries to work out just this theme.”

“Chance governs all things necessity, which is far from having the same purity, comes only later.
