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> [The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/the-film-medium-is-some-sort-of-magic-i-think-also-it-s-a-magic-that/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

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## More by Ingmar Bergman

> [ “I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.\[...\] I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-shall-remember-this-moment-the-silence-the-twilight-the-bowl-of/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [I could always live in my art but never in my life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-could-always-live-in-my-art-but-never-in-my-life/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-am-conscious-about-myself-and-everything-and-then-suddenly-or/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-want-to-confess-as-best-i-can-but-my-heart-is-void-the-void-is-a/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/all-of-us-collect-fortunes-when-we-are-children-a-fortune-of-colors/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/this-damned-ranting-about-doom-is-that-food-for-the-minds-of-modern/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/when-we-experience-a-film-we-consciously-prime-ourselves-for-illusion/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/when-you-die-you-are-extinguished-from-being-you-will-be-transformed/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [The older I become, the more I think about my mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/the-older-i-become-the-more-i-think-about-my-mother/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-ll-tell-you-something-banal-we-re-emotional-illiterates-and-not/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-have-always-had-the-ability-to-attach-my-demons-to-my-chariot-and/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/the-individualists-stare-into-each-other-s-eyes-and-yet-deny-the/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-d-prostitute-my-talents-if-it-would-further-my-cause-steal-if-there/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [“Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/every-inflection-and-every-gesture-a-lie-every-smile-a-grimace/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

> [The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/the-demons-are-innumerable-arrive-at-the-most-inappropriate-times-and/)

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