Zitat des Tages von Ingmar Bergman:
I always work with 18 friends.
When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
My education was very tough.
There is something joyous about not talking.
There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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.
I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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.
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
If I don't create, I don't exist.
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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.
I am very shy with people I don't know.
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
I make all my decisions on intuition.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.