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I think I have made just one picture that I really like.

I think I have made just one picture that I really like.

Ingmar Bergman
Thinking, Made, Just One
Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Country, Loneliness, Thinking
Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Ingmar Bergman
Liars, Giving, Trying

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.

Ingmar Bergman
People, Giving, Answers
Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

Ingmar Bergman
Thinking, Darkness, Magic

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Past, Order, Worry

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Ingmar Bergman
Bergman, Manage

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Doe, Atoms, Capricious
"The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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.

Ingmar Bergman
Angel, Artist, Dragons
Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

Ingmar Bergman
Seven Months, Long, Amusement

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