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Ingmar Bergman
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Ingmar Bergman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 14
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.
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When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.
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Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
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It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.
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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.
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I think I have made just one picture that I really like.
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To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
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Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
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I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.
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Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
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Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
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First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
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Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community and a better world? Or, if God doesn't exist, what do we do then? What does our world look like then? In none of this was there the least political colour.
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I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
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