Top 60 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

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.

My education was very tough.

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

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

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

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

I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.