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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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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"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."
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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"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."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"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."
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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