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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.”
“I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today, I think I would say, "You are very talented and I will see if I can help you, but I don't think I want anything else to do with you." I don't say I'm pleasant now, but I think I changed slowly in my 50's. At least I hope I've changed.”
“I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.”
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”
“No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. Neither you nor I. We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao flu, or being struck by lightning. You're utterly helpless. Exposed. As I see it today, any relapse is utterly out of the question. But I can't say it's out of the question tomorrow.”
“Ingmar Bergman : Face to Face (Official site, by The Ingmar Bergman Foundation”
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema. His films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul."
Fanny and Alexander
1982 · Director
Autumn Sonata
1978 · Director
Cries and Whispers
1972 · Director · as Narrator (voice)
Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Director
Persona
1966 · Director
Winter Light
1963 · Director
The Virgin Spring
1960 · Director
The Magician
1958 · Director
The Seventh Seal
1957 · Director
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Director
Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · Director