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

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

" 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. "

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

" People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. "

" Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa. "

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

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

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

" Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. "

" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother. "

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

" 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. "