"To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men."

“There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.”

Source : "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

“A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".”

“It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money”

“I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find myself. I feel that a lot of my work is working on problems that might be specifically American problems, but not exclusively.”

“If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.”

“I got called to write for Aerosmith, nothing ever came of it, but I ended up spending the day with Steven Tyler and going to his house and we sat down at the piano, just me and him, and he sang for me and played, then he asked me to sing for him, and then we sang harmony together. That was just a big moment where it was like 'oh my god, my life is crazy!' It was really cool.”

“To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.”

“The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.”