Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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• I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Reality

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Opportunity, Wells, Prepared

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• 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

  Tired, Climbing, Views

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• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

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  Art, Twilight, Film Directing

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• 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

  Army, Design, Decision

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• We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Hurt, Differences, Making A Difference

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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.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Dark

  "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". "Sight & Sound" Magazine, June 1991.

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• Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Solitude, Feelings, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

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  Film, Organize, Universe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Intellectual, Skins, Unmotivated

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• I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Challenges, Demon, Ability

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• I could always live in my art but never in my life

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art

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• 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.

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  Running, Dog, Fall

  "Fictional character: Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl". "Fanny and Alexander", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

  Ingmar Bergman

  Long, Feelings, Feels

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• 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.

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  Dream, Moving, Reflection

  "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

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• 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.

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  People, Gossip, Solitude

  "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Writing, Air

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• 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.

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  Dream, Art, White

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• 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.

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  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

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  Reality, Feels, Very Strong

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• 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.

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  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

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  Music, Art, Emotion

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Firsts, Details

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• 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.

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  Morning, Wrath, Desire

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• 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.

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  Dream, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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