I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. Ingmar Bergman More Quotes by Ingmar Bergman More Quotes From 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 awful watches thinking Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. Ingmar Bergman portraiture self lying I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities. Ingmar Bergman very-strong feels reality When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on. Ingmar Bergman eggs dream moving To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated. Ingmar Bergman pride humility sorry It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then. Ingmar Bergman touching cutting humanity Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude. Ingmar Bergman able solitude two Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever. Ingmar Bergman echoes forever children I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman sarcastic religious funny I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. Ingmar Bergman skeletons flesh writing I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors. Ingmar Bergman hate darkness doors The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. Ingmar Bergman deny individuality eye 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 family light children When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. Ingmar Bergman fashion play art When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Ingmar Bergman imagination play feelings I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that. Ingmar Bergman patriotism bottles thinking 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 fields way moving 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 causes way art Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see. Ingmar Bergman climbing mountain needs I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. Ingmar Bergman liars trying giving
