Ingmar Bergman

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 am my own demon. I am my own god.”

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

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

“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.”