“The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.comTagged: Create, Creativity, Gift, Art, Creation
“People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.comTagged: Intention, Aim, Truth, Telling The Truth, Human Condition
“I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.comTagged: Art, film, Music, emotions, Intellect
“When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.comTagged: film, Experience, Feeling, Illusion, Imagination