Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer who worked in film, television, and theatre. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time and is most famous for films such as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander.
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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.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Intuition
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.
—Ingmar Bergman
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
Topics: Art
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Manners
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Adversity, Cancer
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Age, Aging
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Age
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