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All Quotes by author - Ingmar Bergman

" Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons. "

" Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. "

" 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. "

" For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema. "

" From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.' "

" I always work with 18 friends. "

" I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. "

" 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.' "

" I am forever living in my childhood. "

" I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "

" 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. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional. "

" I am very shy with people I don't know. "

" I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. "

" I dream about doing a film about once a week. "

" 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. "

" If I don't create, I don't exist. "

" If I let myself go, nothing will get done. "

" 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. "

" I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere. "

" I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. "

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

" I hope I never get so old I get religious. "

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

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

" In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I. "

" I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole. "

" 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. "

" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "

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