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Ingmar Bergman Quote: “We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.”

51. “We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “You know I feel such tenderness for you. It’s difficult to bear. I don’t know what to do with my tenderness.”

52. “You know I feel such tenderness for you. It’s difficult to bear. I don’t know what to do with my tenderness.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “The older I become, the more I think about my mother.”

53. “The older I become, the more I think about my mother.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke – a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red.”

54. “When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke – a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.”

55. “First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.”

56. “When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.”

— Ingmar Bergman

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

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

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “I think I have made just one picture that I really like...”

58. “I think I have made just one picture that I really like...”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “I’m planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That’s hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.”

59. “I’m planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That’s hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “Man has made himself free, terribly and dizzyingly free. Religion and art are kept alive for the sake of sentimentality, as a conventional politeness toward the past, a benevolent solicitude of leisure’s increasingly nervous citizens.”

60. “Man has made himself free, terribly and dizzyingly free. Religion and art are kept alive for the sake of sentimentality, as a conventional politeness toward the past, a benevolent solicitude of leisure’s increasingly nervous citizens.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “On the whole, however, art is free, shameless, irresponsible, and, as I said: the movement is intense, almost feverish, like, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants. The snake itself has long been dead, eaten, deprived of its poison, but the skin moves, filled with meddlesome life.”

61. “On the whole, however, art is free, shameless, irresponsible, and, as I said: the movement is intense, almost feverish, like, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants. The snake itself has long been dead, eaten, deprived of its poison, but the skin moves, filled with meddlesome life.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “My play opens with an actor walking down into the audience, where he strangles the critic, then reads aloud from a little black book all the humiliations he has noted therein. Then he throws up on the audience, after which he exits and puts a bullet through his head.”

62. “My play opens with an actor walking down into the audience, where he strangles the critic, then reads aloud from a little black book all the humiliations he has noted therein. Then he throws up on the audience, after which he exits and puts a bullet through his head.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “I would have been happier if I’d been anonymous.”

63. “I would have been happier if I’d been anonymous.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.”

64. “Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “Here in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”

65. “Here in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.”

66. “When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “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.”

67. “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.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quote: “Our human flesh needs touch and intimacy, what we get, or should get, from a mother – Woman. Shouts and whispers.”

69. “Our human flesh needs touch and intimacy, what we get, or should get, from a mother – Woman. Shouts and whispers.”

— Ingmar Bergman

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