Ingmar Bergman Film Quotes

#1. Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

Mary Ellen Mark

#2. An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Rod Serling

#3. In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.

Andy Kindler

#4. The doo-wop stalker love song on a Cincinnati oldies station
you broke up with me because I was an obnoxious jerk and now you're dating him, so I drive by your house and stare in your window every night, thereby proving that I'm an even bigger creep than you thought

Sarah Vowell

#5. Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Ingmar Bergman

#7. The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

K. Eric Drexler

#8. All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.

Drake

#9. I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

Oded Fehr

#10. I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Ingmar Bergman

#11. When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

Ingmar Bergman

#12. There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Ingmar Bergman

#13. I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Ingmar Bergman

#14. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Ingmar Bergman

#15. Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?"
I didn't say anything.

Michael Ondaatje

#16. The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

Ingmar Bergman

#17. I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

Jackie DeShannon

#18. I dream about doing a film about once a week.

Ingmar Bergman

#19. To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

Ingmar Bergman

#20. I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

Ingmar Bergman

#21. There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Thierry Henry

#22. Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sylvester Stallone

#23. Film as dream, film as music. 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.

Ingmar Bergman

#24. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Edward Berard

#25. How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

J.D. Salinger

#26. Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal (1957).

John Eliot Gardiner

#27. People tried to test me (in 1999) and I came up with some pretty good throws. Everybody on the team calls me 'Bazooka' now. That's kind of like a nickname I gave myself.

Albert Belle

#28. Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Lao-Tzu

#29. No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Mignon McLaughlin

#30. 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.

Ingmar Bergman

#31. 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