Ingmar Bergman Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• 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

• 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

  Dream, Art, Twilight

• The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Darkness, Magic

• 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, Doors, Darkness

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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, Children, Light

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