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" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "
Ingmar Bergman
Life
Thought
My Life
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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 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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Achieving
Children
" 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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Find
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" I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. "
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Experience
" Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother. "
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Great
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" If I let myself go, nothing will get done. "
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Will
Nothing
" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "
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Anger
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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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Ego
" 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. "
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Point
Fame
Waiting
" I dream about doing a film about once a week. "
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About
Film
Once
" I am forever living in my childhood. "
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Forever
Am
Childhood
" I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. "
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Serve
Write
Skeletons
" 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. "
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Childhood
Today
Night
" I hope I never get so old I get religious. "
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Old
Religion
Religious
" When you finish a film, you never want to see it again. "
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Never
See
Want
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Think
Self
I Am
" I always work with 18 friends. "
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Friends
Work
Always
" In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I. "
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Serpent
Which
Egg
" 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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Soul
Me
People
" Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. "
Ingmar Bergman
Worth
Difference
Everything
" 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'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. "
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Chair
Window
Nothing
" I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro. "
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Reason
Reality
Down
" I make all my decisions on intuition. "
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Decisions
Make
" For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema. "
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Most
Cinema
Me
" 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 don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. "
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Own
Watch
My Own
" 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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Deep
Music
Dark
" 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 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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Demons
Negative
Work