Ingmar Bergman

“My demons are my companions, I get along with them.”

“When you are a filmmaker, you are not a persona. You are a craftsman.”

“My basic view of things is not to have any basic view of things.”

“I am deeply religious in my own way, but I am not a Christian.”

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

“The truth is that I am a hopeless romantic.”

“Film has dream, film has music. It is a language with such possibilities.”

“At my age, the demons are thronging round me. They are the ghosts of people I have wronged.”

“I am a person who is very interested in the human face.”

“I'm not interested in the supernatural. I'm very interested in the super-real.”

“I don't watch my own films. I don't have time. I'm a working man.”

“I have been asked what I mean by 'God.' I mean a mystery that is not a void.”

“No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

“To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.”

“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”

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

“I want to be a voice for the spirit, for the soul, and I want to be able to amplify that voice.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“I am my own demon. I am my own god.”

“I have an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.”