Akiro Kurosawa's Ran
"Does a traitor betray himself?"

Stephen Frear's Dangerous Liaisons
"When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to — namely to keep quiet and do what I was told — gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear virtuous, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."

Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract
"I try very hard never to distort or dissemble."

Shekar Kapur's Elizabeth
"There shall be one mistress here and no master."

Fred Zinneman's A Man For All Seasons
"When we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?"