Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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 the dark rooms of our souls.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
I always work with 18 friends.
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
I am forever living in my childhood.
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
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 one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
I am very shy with people I don't know.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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Ingmar Bergman
Profession
Director
BirthDate
14 July, 1918
DeathDate
30 July, 2007
Country
Sweden
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