Swedish - Director | July 14, 1918 - July 30, 2007
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
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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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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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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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.'
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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