Ingmar Bergman Quotes
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 consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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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.
