Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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

ایوا : ویکتور می‌گوید که دیگر نمی‌تواند به خدا اعتقاد داشته باشد. زیرا خدا می‌گذارد که بچه‌ها بمیرند، زنده در آتش بسوزند، تیر بخورند، یا دیوانه شوند. من سعی می‌کنم که برایش توضیح بدهم که بچه‌ها با بزرگترها فرقی ندارند، چون آدم‌های بزرگ هم هنوز بچه هستند، اما در لباس آدم‌های بزرگ زندگی می‌کنند. از نظر من انسان موجود عظیمی است که در خیال نمی‌‌‌گنجد. همه چیز، از بالاترین تا پست‌‌ترین چیزها در وجود اوست. همانطور که در زندگی هم هست. به نظر من انسان تصویری از خداست و همه چیز، همه‌ی نیروهای عظیم در خدا جمع است. بعد، شیاطین و مقدسین و پیامبران و تاریک‌اندیشان و هنرمندان و بت‌شکنان آفریده شده‌اند. همه‌ی چیزها در کنار هم وجود دارند و در همدیگر تداخل می‌کنند. مثل تصویرهای بزرگی که مرتب در حال تغییرند، منظورم را می‌فهمید؟ به این ترتیب باید حقیقت‌های بیشماری وجود داشته باشد. نه فقط یک حقیقت که ما آن را با حواس گنگ خود درک می‌کنیم، بلکه انبوهی از حقیقت‌ها که در پیرامون و درون و برون ما حضور دارند. اعتقاد به هرنوع محدودیتی صرفا ناشی از ترس و تعصب است. حدی وجود ندارد. نه برای افکار و نه برای احساسات. اضطراب است که حدود را می‌سازد. شما این‌طور فکر نمی‌کنید؟...در مورد مسیح هم همینطور است. او قوانین و حد و مرزها را با قوانین کاملا تازه که هرگز کسی چیزی درباره آن نشنیده است در هم می‌شکند : با عشق.تعجبی ندارد که چرا مردم متوحش و خشمگین بودند. درست به همان شکل که هرگاه دستخوش احساساتی عمیق می‌شوند، می‌هراسند و می‌گریزند و به خاطر نگرانی برای احساسات مرده و عواطف پژمرده‌شان خونِ دل می‌خورند

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

Nu citesc ziare,nu ascult şi nici nu mă uit la pogramele de ştiri.Încet şi pe neobservate dispare cel mai credincios tovarăş din viaţa mea:anxietatea,moştenită atât de la mama cât şi de la tata,aşezată chiar în centrul identităţii mele,demonul şi în aceelaşi timp prietenul şi stimulatorul meu.Mi se antenuează nu numai suferinţa,angoasa şi sentimentul de umilire ireparabilă,dar mi se eclipsează şi estompează şi forţa propulsivă a creativităţii.
Aş fi putut rămâne un caz medical pentru tot restul vieţii mele.Existenţa îmi era aşa de plăcută în aceea stare de melancolie.Ea era ocrotită cu atâta delicateţe.Nimic nu mai este real,nimic nu mai are vreo importanţă,nimic nu mai este neliniştitor sau chinuitor.Mă mişc cu precauţie,reacţiile îmi sunt întârziate sau inexistente,sexualitatea încetează,viaţa este o elegie,un madrigal cântat de un cor,undeva departe,sub o boltă cu ecou,în timp ce ferestrele rotunde cu vitralii strălucesc şi spun poveşti care nu mă mai intereseză.

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.

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

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.

No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. Neither you nor I. We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao flu, or being struck by lightning. You're utterly helpless. Exposed. As I see it today, any relapse is utterly out of the question. But I can't say it's out of the question tomorrow.

The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

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

I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and extremely emotional. Perhaps it is not even a "he," but a "she."

You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.

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.

I once had a dream, or a vision, and I imagined that dream to be of importance to other people, so I wrote the manuscript and made the film. But it is not until the moment when my dream meets with your emotions and your minds that my shadows come to life. It is your recognition that brings them to life. It is your indifference that kills them. I hope that you will understand; that you when you leave the cinema will take with you an experience or a sudden thought — or maybe a question. The efforts of my friends and myself have then not been in vain…