I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[...] I… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously? — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and about agriculture… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.” — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share
