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" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "
Ingmar Bergman
Puberty
Say
Left
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Opinion
Done
Silence
" 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. "
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Life
Mother
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" I am forever living in my childhood. "
Ingmar Bergman
Forever
Am
Childhood
" 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. "
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Try
Truth
Tell
" I am very shy with people I don't know. "
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Very
Shy
People
" 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. "
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Plain
Now
Spring
" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "
Ingmar Bergman
Left
Anger
Creativity
" When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely. "
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Lonely
Never
" I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. "
Ingmar Bergman
Own
Watch
My Own
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Society
God
Father
" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "
Ingmar Bergman
Life
Thought
My Life
" There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for. "
Ingmar Bergman
Books
Difficult
Longing
" I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. "
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Time
Emotions
Experience
" Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience. "
Ingmar Bergman
Writing
Very
Much
" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "
Ingmar Bergman
Emotions
Thinking
Dreams
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Deep
Music
Dark
" If I let myself go, nothing will get done. "
Ingmar Bergman
Done
Will
Nothing
" 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. "
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Young
Wise
Think
" If I don't create, I don't exist. "
Ingmar Bergman
Exist
Create
" I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "
Ingmar Bergman
I Am
My Life
Life
" 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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Sea
Balance
Loneliness
" My education was very tough. "
Ingmar Bergman
Education
Tough
Very
" Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. "
Ingmar Bergman
Fact
Sometimes
Mourn
" 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. "
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Darkness
Find
Intuition
" 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. "
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Think
Self
I Am
" 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. "
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Doubt
Film
Need
" 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. "
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Suffering
Achieving
Children
" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "
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Need
Life
You
" I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. "
Ingmar Bergman
Serve
Write
Skeletons