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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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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