Ingmar Bergman Quotes
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
— Ingmar Bergman
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
— Ingmar Bergman
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
— Ingmar Bergman
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
— Ingmar Bergman
To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
— Ingmar Bergman
Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.
— Ingmar Bergman
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
— Ingmar Bergman
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
— Ingmar Bergman
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
— Ingmar Bergman
Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.
— Ingmar Bergman
For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
— Ingmar Bergman
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.
— Ingmar Bergman
I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.
— Ingmar Bergman
I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.
— Ingmar Bergman
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
— Ingmar Bergman
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
— Ingmar Bergman
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
— Ingmar Bergman
I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
— Ingmar Bergman
Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.
— Ingmar Bergman
When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
— Ingmar Bergman
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
— Ingmar Bergman
To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that
— Ingmar Bergman
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
— Ingmar Bergman
Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure ...
— Ingmar Bergman
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
— Ingmar Bergman
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.
— Woody Allen
My education was very tough.
— Ingmar Bergman
You know I feel such tenderness for you. It's difficult to bear. I don't know what to do with my tenderness.
— Ingmar Bergman
I am very shy with people I don't know.
— Ingmar Bergman
The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
— Ingmar Bergman
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.
— Ingmar Bergman
I make all my decisions on intuition.
— Ingmar Bergman
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
— Ingmar Bergman
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
— Ingmar Bergman
One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
— Ingmar Bergman
There is something joyous about not talking.
— Ingmar Bergman
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.
— Ingmar Bergman
If I don't create, I don't exist.
— Ingmar Bergman
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
— Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal (1957).
— John Eliot Gardiner
I am forever living in my childhood.
— Ingmar Bergman
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
— Ingmar Bergman
I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities.
— Ingmar Bergman
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
— Liv Ullmann
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
— Ingmar Bergman
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
— Ingmar Bergman
Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything. — Ingmar Bergman
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful.
— Ingmar Bergman
Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
— Ingmar Bergman
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
— Ingmar Bergman
I could always live in my art but never in my life
— Ingmar Bergman
I think I have made just one picture that I really like ...
— Ingmar Bergman
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
— Ingmar Bergman
Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.
— Ingmar Bergman
We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.
— Ingmar Bergman
When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
— Ingmar Bergman
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
— Ingmar Bergman
It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.
— Ingmar Bergman
They said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst
— Ingmar Bergman
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
— Ingmar Bergman
You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say-Pauline in In the Presence of a Clown — Ingmar Bergman
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
— Ingmar Bergman
Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
— Ingmar Bergman
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
— Ingmar Bergman
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
— Ingmar Bergman
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
— Ingmar Bergman
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
— Ingmar Bergman
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
— Ingmar Bergman
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
Necessary illusions enable us to live.
— Ingmar Bergman
I always work with 18 friends.
— Ingmar Bergman
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.
— Ingmar Bergman
