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

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

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

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

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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. "

" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "

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" I am forever living in my childhood. "

" When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you finish a film, you never want to see it again. "

" The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. "

" 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 write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. "

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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. "