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"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
Future
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
Society
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
Time
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
Science
"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
Being
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
Space
"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
Society
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
People
"When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."
Nature
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."
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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
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"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
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