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My education was very tough.
If I don't create, I don't exist.
When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
I am forever living in my childhood.
I make all my decisions on intuition.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
There is something joyous about not talking.
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that
Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.
To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
I could always live in my art but never in my life
The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
I think I have made just one picture that I really like.
One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)
I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.
I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.
For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.