Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
I make all my decisions on intuition.
I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
If I don't create, I don't exist.
If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
My education was very tough.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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Ingmar Bergman
Profession
Director
BirthDate
14 July, 1918
DeathDate
30 July, 2007
Country
Sweden
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