"When film is not a document, it is……" — Ingmar Bergman
"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 the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - THE SERPENT'S EGG, THE TOUCH, FACE TO FACE and so on"
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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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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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