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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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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
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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."
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"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
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"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
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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."
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"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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"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."
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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."
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"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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"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
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