A Quote by Giancarlo Esposito
Luis Bunuel made great movies.
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A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.
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.
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.
Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.
A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.
If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.
Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.
If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.
Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.
I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.
I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.
And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.
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