Ingmar Bergman Quotes

"You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say
-Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

În ciuda faptului că port o mască,nu sunt nesincer.Intuiţia mea vorbeşte repede şi clar,sunt prezent în deplinătatea fiinţei mele.Masca este un filtru.Nimic din ceea ce este personal şi care nu are nici o importanţă,nu trebuie să treacă prin ea.Tumultul din mine trebuie ţinut în frâu.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

რწმენა - წამებაა, თითქოს ვიღაცა გიყვარს, რომელიც ბნელში იმალება და რაც არ უნდა იყვირო, მაინც ვერ გააგონებ

Edvard: Du har levat i en konstgjord värld, insnärd i konstgjorda känslor. Jag måste lära dig och dina barn att leva i verkligheten. Det är inte mitt fel att verkeligheten är ett helvete

Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.
Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything.

Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others — that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude. We're always reaching out for new projects, new structure, new systems in order to abolish — partly or wholly — our insight into our loneliness. If it weren't so, religious systems would never arise.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet.
Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander.
Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop.
Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå -
Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. “Så småningom kommer du att förstå.” Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

"Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on."

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

Tyla. Pasitikėjimas vienas kitu.

Mes vaidiname daug vaidmenų. Kai kuriuos šiaip, dėl smagumo, kitus dėl to, kad kitiems taip norisi. O dažniausiai - kad apgintume save.

When Jesus was nailed to the cross — and hung there in torment - he cried out — "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God's silence.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.