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

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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. "

" There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for. "

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

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

" I dream about doing a film about once a week. "

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

" I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.' "

" 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. "

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

Ingmar Bergman

Exist

Create

" My education was very tough. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 forever living in my childhood. "

Ingmar Bergman

Forever

Childhood

" 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 hope I never get so old I get religious. "

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

" 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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Mother

People

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "