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" I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. "
Ingmar Bergman
Chair
Window
Nothing
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" 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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" 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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" We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive. "
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" I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. "
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" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. "
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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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" I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro. "
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" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "
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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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" 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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" When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely. "
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" I am forever living in my childhood. "
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" I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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