When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to… — 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
When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image