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" 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. "

Ingmar Bergman

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

" 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. "

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" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "

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

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" My education was very tough. "

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

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

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

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

" 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. "

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

" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I always work with 18 friends. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "