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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."

"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."

"There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock."

"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."
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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."

"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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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