Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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

Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The s...

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of mo...

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into ...

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly t...

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from se...

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

I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking momen...

Minus: Papa, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality burst open. Do you understand...

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.Antonius Block: And will you...

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fan...

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

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

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spea...

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

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I m...

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