Best Ingmar Bergman Quotes
- Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. Contain
- Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight… Art
- I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality. Brief
- We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and… Anxieties
- There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath,… Desire
- We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts. Alive
- Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover… Available
- A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it… Causes
- Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness. Antonioni
- Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as… Capture
- We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully… Alexander
- I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close… Behind
- All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have… All
- Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security.… Able
- I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you,… Anything Else
- Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… Art
- I think I have made just one picture that I really like... Dissatisfaction
- I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown… All
- Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure... Conscious
- It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other… Beings
- The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. Deny
- I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that… Alone
- There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on… Ago
- There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. Affect
- I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at… All