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" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Plain
Now
Spring
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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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" 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 hate to travel. I don't go anywhere. "
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Anywhere
Hate
Travel
" I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. "
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Put
Effort
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Darkness
Find
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" 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
Marriage
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
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Artist
Ego
" 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
" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "
Ingmar Bergman
Life
Thought
My Life
" I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young. "
Ingmar Bergman
Young
Bloody
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Soul
Me
People
" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "
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Need
Life
You
" We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive. "
Ingmar Bergman
Alive
Parents
Regret
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Point
Fame
Waiting
" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "
Ingmar Bergman
Puberty
Say
Left
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Sea
Balance
Loneliness
" If I let myself go, nothing will get done. "
Ingmar Bergman
Done
Will
Nothing
" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "
Ingmar Bergman
Emotions
Thinking
Dreams
" I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "
Ingmar Bergman
I Am
My Life
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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Deep
Music
Dark
" 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
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Me
Work
Think
" I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience. "
Ingmar Bergman
Miss
Experience
Premiere
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Childhood
Today
Night
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Young
Wise
Think
" I make all my decisions on intuition. "
Ingmar Bergman
Intuition
Decisions
Make
" 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. "
Ingmar Bergman
Think
Now
Find
" Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother. "
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Special
Great
Doer
" Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. "
Ingmar Bergman
Fact
Sometimes
Mourn
" There is something joyous about not talking. "
Ingmar Bergman
Joyous
Not Talking
Something