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. Ingmar Bergman More Quotes by Ingmar Bergman More Quotes From Ingmar Bergman I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality. Ingmar Bergman dream reality 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 film-directing twilight art Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. Ingmar Bergman solitude humanity feelings I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. 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 design army decision When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence. Ingmar Bergman unmotivated skins intellectual My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. Ingmar Bergman reflection dream moving We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts. Ingmar Bergman making-a-difference differences hurt Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me. Ingmar Bergman voice play lying Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. Ingmar Bergman climbing tired views I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done. Ingmar Bergman struggle air writing Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. Ingmar Bergman prepared wells opportunity The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world. Ingmar Bergman dog running fall Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingmar Bergman dark dream art No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business. Ingmar Bergman white dream art I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. Ingmar Bergman self children thinking To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that Ingmar Bergman feelings feels long 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 music emotion art Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful. Ingmar Bergman nice talking thinking There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live. Ingmar Bergman wrath desire morning I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality. Ingmar Bergman unknown-worlds film reality
