Man has defended himself always against other men, against nature. He has constantly violated nature. The result is a civilization built on force, power, fear, dependence. We are like savages! We use the microscope like a cudgel! …No, that's wrong God, how weary I am of this talk! "Words! Words! Words!" At last I know what Hamlet meant. He was fed up with windbags. And so am I! Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, 1986.