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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.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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I am forever living in my childhood.
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Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
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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 it's awful.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I've never liked Welles as an actor, because he's not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the drain, you see, that's when he's croaks. In my eyes he's an infinitely overrated filmmaker.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
Ingmar Bergman
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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My education was very tough.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
Ingmar Bergman
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are - then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith - from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion - from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
Ingmar Bergman -
I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. 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 the purest ideal.
Ingmar Bergman -
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Ingmar Bergman