Top 60 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

I am very shy with people I don't know.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

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

Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

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

I am forever living in my childhood.

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.'

I dream about doing a film about once a week.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.