I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar BergmanI liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage , with its fine humanism.
Ingmar BergmanSelf -portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth .
Ingmar BergmanI want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.
Ingmar BergmanI'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and [illegible] liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Ingmar BergmanI hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar BergmanI don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar BergmanWhen 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 BergmanThis damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
Ingmar BergmanOur social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.
Ingmar BergmanYou find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.
Ingmar BergmanThe demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
Ingmar Bergman