Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

About Ingmar Bergman:

Ernst Ingmar Bergman is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time and is most famous for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
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Film as dream, film as music. 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

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

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Ingmar Bergman

One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Ingmar Bergman

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Ingmar Bergman

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Ingmar Bergman

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my...

Ingmar Bergman

Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectiv...

Ingmar Bergman

Author Bio

  • NameIngmar Bergman
  • DescriptionSwedish filmmaker
  • AliasesErnst Ingmar Bergman
  • BornJuly 14, 1918
  • DiedJuly 30, 2007
  • CountrySweden
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Theatre Director; Screenwriter; Writer
  • AwardsGoethe Prize; Honorary Degree; Erasmus Prize; Praemium Imperiale