Quotes from Ingmar Bergman

Every artist who creates intense depictions of his own problems, which he believes not only to be important to him, but also to others, needs to use himself.

We're left without a chance, ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.

I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.

Dac? m? sim?eam atacat,mu?cam la rândul meu ca un câine r?nit.Nu aveam încredere în nimeni,nu iubeam pe nimeni,nu sim?eam lipsa nim?nui.Eram subjugat de o sexualitate care m? împingea spre o permanent? infidelitate ?i ac?iuni for?ate,mereu chinuit de dorin??,team?,angoas? ?i con?tiin?? înc?rcat?.

What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?

One of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isn't it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child.

Kuru kafa resmi, hemen hemen bir ç?plak kad?n kadar ilginçtir.

I was deeply in love with my mother. She was very beautiful and in many ways unattainable. She changed between being very cold and very warm, and she would reject us children on and off. You never quite knew what she would do. But I was very certain of one thing: I loved her passionately. That's one of my earliest childhood memories. That I had such strong ties to my mother.

Johan: Jeg synes, livet er det værd, man lægger i det, hverken mere eller mindre. Jeg nægter at leve under evighedens synsvinkel. Scener fra et ægteskab

I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.

Sécate las lágrimas y mira el fin con serenidad. Hubieras gozado más de la vida despreocupándote de la eternidad, pero es demasiado tarde. En este último instante goza al menos del prodigio de vivir en la verdad tangible antes de caer en la nada.

Al borde de la vida el miedo nos hace crear una imagen salvadora y esa imagen es lo que llamamos Dios

El amor es una palabra bonita que a cambio de una sombra de felicidad te proporciona toda suerte de engaños, falsedades y disgustos.

Quiero confesarme y no sé qué decir. Mi corazón está vacío. El vacío es como un espejo puesto delante de mi rostro. Me veo a mí mismo, y al contemplarlo siento un profundo desprecio de mi ser. (Pausa) por mi indiferencia hacia los hombres y las cosas me he alejado de la sociedad en que viví. Ahora habito un mundo de fantasmas, prisionero de fantasías sin sueños.

Por qué, al menos, no me es posible matar a Dios en mi interior? ¿Por qué prefiere vivir en mí de una forma tan dolorosa y humillante, puesto que yo le maldigo y desearía expulsarlo de mi corazón? ¿Sabes? Estoy a punto de llegar a una conclusión... Creo que Dios es una especie de realidad engañosa, de la cual los hombres como yo no podemos desprendernos

It is always the case: if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. You are always conscious of a wound.

Mi vida ha sido algo completamente vacío, sin sentido. He cazado, he viajado, he convivido con todo el mundo. Pero todo ha sido inútil... Lo digo sin vergüenza y sin remordimiento, porque sé que la vida de los hombres está hecha así. Es precisamente por eso por lo que deseo utilizar mi aplazamiento: para realizar aunque sólo sea un único acto que tenga alguna significación.

I only exist here as a formality. — Ingmar Bergman, from the screenplay The Passion of Anna (1969)

Alexander Ekdahl, is eleven years old, and lives in the small Swedish city of Uppsala. He lives in a large townhouse, divided into four splendid apartments, with his sister, Fanny, his parents, his two uncles and aunts, his cousin, his grandmother, and a number of servants.

Helena Ekdahl, the famous actress – who was brought to Uppsala by her rich, young husband – who bought a theatre for her – and allowed her to play in it until he decided it was time to start a family.

A tudás több választási lehet?séget ad, és több szorongást.

Helena (börjar gråta): Ser du, nu gråter jag. Det glada, fina livet är slut, det hemska, skitige livet kastar sig över oss. Så är det.

Life has precisely the value one puts on it.

Tyla. PasitikÄ—jimas vienas kitu.