All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up. Ingmar Bergman More Quotes by Ingmar Bergman More Quotes From Ingmar Bergman Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude. Ingmar Bergman gossip solitude people The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes. Ingmar Bergman negativity positivity negative Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure. Ingmar Bergman embarrassing effort failure My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer. Ingmar Bergman dogmatic views I could always live in my art but never in my life Ingmar Bergman art 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 details writing firsts When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about Ingmar Bergman light wise thinking I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams. Ingmar Bergman dream heart men There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell. Ingmar Bergman wall light running I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST. Ingmar Bergman relax three powerful Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. Ingmar Bergman creativity creative art 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 anxiety circles worry To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe. Ingmar Bergman organize universe film Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why? Ingmar Bergman flow limits bears I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible. Ingmar Bergman scent atmosphere scripts Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop. Ingmar Bergman questioning block Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.' Ingmar Bergman arrogance feelings night Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness. Ingmar Bergman twilight dream art Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. Ingmar Bergman sarcasm differences sarcastic 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 over-you feelings trying
