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"High Noon is a pretty corny movie."
Pretty
"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."
God
"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."
Feelings
"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
Crime
"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
Committee
"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."
Religion
"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money."
Money
"We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter."
Journey
"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
Friendship
"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."
Wife
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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Personal Development
"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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