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

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" 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. "

" If I don't create, I don't exist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am very shy with people I don't know. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero. "

" When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

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

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

" I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro. "

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