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Ingmar Bergman Quotes
Ingmar Bergman Quotes
Ingmar Bergman
Swedish
Director
Born:
Jul 14
,
1918
Died:
Jul 30
,
2007
Am
Life
Me
Mother
People
Think
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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
Army
Darkness
Must
Find
Intuition
Throw
Intellect
Send
Then
Spear
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Ingmar Bergman
Love
Sit
Nothing
Out
Window
Lazy
Look
Very
Chair
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
Dreams
Emotions
Thinking
Part
Tensions
Pictures
Always
Desires
If I don't create, I don't exist.
Ingmar Bergman
Exist
Create
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman
Hope
Religion
Old
Religious
Never
Get
I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
Ingmar Bergman
Time
Anxiety
Cause
Living
Think
Tooth
Toothache
Has-Been
Find
Able
Some
Having
Had
Wrong
Like
Without
Tangible
Been
Dentist
Person
Anything
Which
Whole
Now
Conscientious
The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
Ingmar Bergman
Me
Soul
People
Burden
Become
Trapped
Think
Other
Consider
Out
Would
Would-Be
Slowly
Only
Sabotage
Vegetable
Terrifying
Gradually
The Only Thing
Dying
Which
Body
Appalling
Suddenly
Thing
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Ingmar Bergman
Life
Bird
My Life
Birds
Dreamt
Never
Am
Normally
Any
Afraid
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Ingmar Bergman
Life
Death
Day
Thought
My Life
Gone
About
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar Bergman
Miserable
Become
Own
Think
Films
My Own
Cry
Ready
Very
Often
Awful
Watch
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
Ingmar Bergman
Regret
Parents
Our
Alive
More
Know
Always
Were
Get
Did
While
Them
Ask
Really
I always work with 18 friends.
Ingmar Bergman
Work
Always
Friends
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Ingmar Bergman
Travel
Hate
Go
Anywhere
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
Ingmar Bergman
Ounce
Never
Put
Families
Effort
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Ingmar Bergman
Patience
Writing
Boring
Takes
Very
Much
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
Ingmar Bergman
Once
Once A Week
Dream
About
Week
Doing
Film
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
Ingmar Bergman
Longing
Difficult
Books
Read
Intend
Want
Many
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
Life
God
Construction
Father
King
Society
Top
Hierarchical
Obedient
About
Freeing
Souls
Up
Human
Then
Creating
Slaves
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.
Ingmar Bergman
Great
Me
People
World
Mother
Father
Great Deal
Vital
Only
Importance
Because
Deal
Were
Revolt
Personal
Personal Level
Against
Themselves
Created
Meant
Certainly
Who
Many
Level
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.
Ingmar Bergman
Silence
Gives
No-One
Sincere
Opinion
Been
His
Discuss
Done
Anyone
Scripts
Show
Who
Even
Whom
Film
If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
Ingmar Bergman
Work
Me
Healthy
Think
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Had
Been
Very
Sitting
Therapy
Profession
Need
When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
Ingmar Bergman
You
See
Finish
Never
Want
Again
Film
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