Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your view becomes much more extensive.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Age
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Manners
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.
—Ingmar Bergman
I make all my decisions on intuition. 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
Topics: Reason, Intuition, Instincts
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
—Ingmar Bergman
Topics: Atheism, Aging, Age
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
Topics: Art
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- Roman Polanski French Film Director
- Billy Wilder American Filmmaker
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