Guy Maddin on L’âge d’or:

“I’d always been pretty secular, and I kind of bought it. It always
seemed like fair game to kind of scalp the church somehow. It just seemed kind of quaint that the savagery of Buñuel’s attack always seemed kind of charmingly distanced for me because I’d already made quite a happy secular space for myself—that it felt a bit like looking at a picture book of World War I, or something. There was so much time and space between me and it that I just saw it as something that must have been pretty important to the artist.”