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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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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"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."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"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."
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"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."
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
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