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Ingmar Bergman (Film Director)

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

— Ingmar Bergman sin

Film as dream, film as music. 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 science

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

— Ingmar Bergman hope

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

— Ingmar Bergman being

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

— Ingmar Bergman opportunity

I have always admired him, and I wish I could be a equally good filmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.Steven Spielberg

— Ingmar Bergman love

Since at this time I was still very much in a quandary over religious faith, I placed my two opposing beliefs side by side, allowing each to state its case in its own way. In this manner, a virtual cease-fire could exist between my childhood piety and my newfound harsh rationalism. Thus, there are no neurotic complications between the knight and his vassals. Also, I infused the characters of Jof and Mia with something that was very important to me: the concept of the holiness of the human being. If you peel off the layers of various theologies, the holy always remains.

— Ingmar Bergman faith

To the fanatical believer physical and spiritual suffering is beside the point, compared with salvation. That is why, to him, everything happening around him is irrelevant, a mirror-image, a mere will-o-the-wisp.I can really never get shot of them, the fanatics. Whether they appear as religious fanatics or vegetarian fanatics makes no odds. Theyre catastrophic people. These types whose whole cast of mind as it were looks beyond mere human beings toward some unknown goal. The terrible thing is the great power they often wield over their fellow human beings. Apart from the fact that I believe they suffer like the very devil, Ive no sympathy for them.Jonas Sima interview

— Ingmar Bergman war

We were supposed to collaborate once, and along with Kurosawa make one love story each for a movie produced by Dino de Laurentiis. I flew down to Rome with my script and spent a lot of time with Fellini while we waited for Kurosawa, who finally couldnt leave Japan because of his health, so the project went belly-up. Fellini was about to finish Satyricon. I spent a lot of time in the studio and saw him work. I loved him both as a director and as a person, and I still watch his movies, like La Strada and that childhood rememberanceOn Federico Fellini

— Ingmar Bergman love

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