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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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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
"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."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
"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."
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
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"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."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"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 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 began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"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."
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