Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.