"You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our…"

"Only the very young and the very old can afford to be honest."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"The only way to make a good film is to be obsessed."

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."