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Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
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 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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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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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.
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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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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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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
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I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.
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One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
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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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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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Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.
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Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
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Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.
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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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I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.
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I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
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We make each other alive it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.
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