Thomas Mann

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.