Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

From an early age onward, it was said that Ingmar has no sense of humor.

Im very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

I hate to travel. I dont go anywhere.

We didnt know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and theres plenty of anger left.

“Im planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. Thats hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”

“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, Here is a painting; take it, please.”