Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into…
• I hope I never get so old I get religious.
• To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's…
• The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
• I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that…
• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
• Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
• Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the…
• Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
• 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 go down in…
• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in…
• Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.
• 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 it…
• To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
• My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have…
• I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That…

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