Bergman Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Bergman's my favorite filmmaker, if I had to choose.

— Robert Eggers

Our knowledge of Swedish culture is kind of limited. Bergman was one Swedish thing that we both knew about and were kind of passionate…

— Ron Mael

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What…

— Paul Schrader

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was…

— Max von Sydow

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen.…

— Steven Spielberg

When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.

— Sydney Pollack

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and…

— James Russell Lowell

There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.

— Alexander Skarsgard

“When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have it mean…

— Lorrie Moore

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at…

— Robert Indiana