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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ingmar Bergman

Doubt

Film

Need

" From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.' "

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

Ingmar Bergman

Young

Bloody

" 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 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. "

" If I let myself go, nothing will get done. "

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

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

" I am forever living in my childhood. "

Ingmar Bergman

Forever

Childhood

" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "

" 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. "

" I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. "

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

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

Ingmar Bergman

Exist

Create

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

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

Ingmar Bergman

Lonely

Never

" 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. "

" When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting. "

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

" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Ingmar Bergman

Most

Cinema

" We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive. "