Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

There is something joyous about not talking.

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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
Ingmar Bergman

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

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

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.