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"50 Ingmar Bergman Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 14 July 1918. Died: 30 July 2007 | Film director | Film producer |

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Get Hope Never Old
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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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.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Being Difference Everything More
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I always work with 18 friends.

Always Friends Work Friendship
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Cinema Face Human Human Face
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Anywhere Go Hate Travel
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I am very shy with people I don't know.

Am I Am Know People
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Am Autobiographical Dream Emotions
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
About Day Death Gone
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

Effort Families Never Ounce
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Appalling Become Body Burden
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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.

Awful Become Cry Films
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
Decisions Intuition Make
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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.

Army Darkness Find Intellect
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Chair I Love Lazy Look
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.

About Doing Dream Film
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
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I am forever living in my childhood.

Am Childhood Forever I Am
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

Am Chaotic Firm I Am
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Am Arranged Because Being
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Calming Difficulty Down Everything
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
Create Mindset Exist
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
Fact Films Longer Make
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

Berlin Created Egg Even
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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.

Always Appreciated Brutality Doubt
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Experience Julie Miss Premiere
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Done Get Go Myself
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Always Desires Dreams Emotions
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My education was very tough.

Education My Tough Very
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Bloody Was Tempered Young
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Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

Against Aging Creativity Demons
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
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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: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Anyone Been Discuss Done
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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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.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Afraid Am Any Bird
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Been Had Has Been Healthy
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There is something joyous about not talking.

About Joyous Not Talking Something
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Ingmar Bergman Quotes & Sayings