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" 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. "

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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. "

Ingmar Bergman

Mother

People

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

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

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

" My education was very tough. "

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

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

" I always work with 18 friends. "

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

" Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience. "

" 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.' "

" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience. "

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

" 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. "

" The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. "

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

" I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young. "

Ingmar Bergman

Young

Bloody

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

" 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. "