"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved……" — Ingmar Bergman
"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."
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Ingmar Bergman
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69 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the…
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The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement.…
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No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room…
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Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that…
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think…
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