Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?