Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
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. '.
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.
I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing. ' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
I read all the time. . . I read a lot of history books.
I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.