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

That I wasn't interested in politics or social matters, that's dead right. I was utterly indifferent. After the war and the discovery of the concentration camps, and with the collapse of political collaborations between the Russians and the Americans, I just contracted out. My involvement became religious. I went in for a psychological, religious line... the salvation-damnation issue, for me, was never political. It was religious. For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community and a better world? Or, if God doesn't exist, what do we do then? What does our world look like then? In none of this was there the least political colour. My revolt against bourgeois society was a revolt-against-the-father. I was a peripheral fellow, regarded with deep suspicion from every quarter... When I arrived in Gothenburg after the war, the actors at the Municipal Theatre fell into distinct groups: old ex-Nazis, Jews, and anti-Nazis. Politically speaking, there was dynamite in that company: but Torsten Hammaren, the head of the theatre, held it together in his iron grasp.

ياللجحيم! كيف بإمكاني أن أحصل على امرأة؟ أية امرأة؟ كان الجميع يتدبرون أمورهم ما عداي. أنا الذي كنت أمارس العادة السرية، أنا الشاحب، المتعرق، صاحب الهالات الزرقاء حول العينين، الضعيف القدرة على التركيز.

إلى جانب كل هذا، كنت نحيلاً، منكس الرأس، سريع الغضب، البادئ بالصراخ والشجار، سئ العلامات بالمدرسة ومتورم الأُذنين من العقاب.

لقد كانت السينما والمسرح هما ملاذيّ الوحيدين.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.