I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful. - Ingmar Bergman

I can’t say why this film [Wild Strawberries] materialised. But I know that the important thing is to use myself both as tree and axe. In the end that’s all I have.

In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this. But I can't see his pictures. I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave, because his pictures make me so nervous. I have the feeling the whole time that he wants to tell me things, but I don't understand what it is, and sometimes I have the feeling that he's bluffing, double-crossing me.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.