Ingmar Bergman Quotes

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

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

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

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

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

I make all my decisions on intuition. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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