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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋmar ˈbærjman] ( listen); 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. Considered to be among the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, Bergman's renowned works include Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), and Fanny and Alexander (1982).

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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

Ability, Attach, Challenges, Demon, Demons

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

Writing, Details, Stories, Write, Know, Story

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.

Art, Dream, Juicy, Lose, Sit, White

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

Art, Causes, Steal, Talents, Way

To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

Long, Feelings, Feels, Feeling, Trust

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated,. . And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that. '.

Amusement, Complicated, Everything, Heavy, Long, Seven Months

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Bring, Film, Realities, Reality, Unknown Worlds

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live. . . Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Desire, Live, Morning, Suspiciousness, Wrath

When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - THE SERPENT'S EGG, THE TOUCH, FACE TO FACE and so on

Dream, Moving, Doors, Managed, Staging, Capable

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Fantasy, Giving, Inveterate, Liars, Old, Trying

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Artistic, Fabric, License

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

Atmosphere, Impossible, Scent, Scents, Tone, Understandable

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Solitude, Feelings, Humanity, Feeling

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

Art, Deep, Film, Film Directing, Twilight

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.

Attitude, Our World, Community, Colour, Political, World

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Music, Art, Emotion, Emotions, Common

I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.

Dog, Beach, Prayer, Waves, Demons

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Failure, Effort, Embarrassing, Efforts, Conscious

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

Darkness, Doors, Hate, Phobias, Tics

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how. Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Dream, Moving, Reflection, Invented, Found, Fully

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