"قالت لي: "الشيء الوحيد الممل فيك يا انجمار برجمان هو ولعك بالأشياء الصحيحة والمفيدة. يجب أن تتخلف عن هذا الولع فهو ولعك وهم مشكوك به، وسوف يخلق أمام… - Ingmar Bergman

One of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isn't it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child. One of the wounds I've found hardest to bear in my adult life has been the fear of humiliation, and the sense of being humiliated. . . Every time I read a review, for instance — whether laudatory or not — this feeling awakes. . . To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated. Our bureaucracy, for instance. I regard it as in high degree built up on humiliation, one of the nastiest and most dangerous of all poisons.

ფილმი სიზმარივითაა. ფილმი მუსიკასავითაა. არც ერთი სხვა სახეობა ისე არ აღწევს სულის სიღრმეებში, როგორც კინოხელოვნება. მხედველობის ნერვის მცირედი გაღიზიანება, შოკის ეფექტი: ოცდაოთხი ამონათებული კადრი წამში, მათ შორის კი სიბნელეა, თუმცა მხედველობის ნერვი მის აღქმას ვერ ასწრებს.

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.