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Quotes from Bergman on Bergman — Ingmar Bergman

1918–2007 Sweden

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I suppose that's what the final sequence tries to express. The notion of love as the only thinkable form of holiness.

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

My basic view of things is — not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer...

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

For me, hell has always been a most suggestive sort of place; but I've never regarded it as being located anywhere else than on earth. Hell is created by human beings — on earth!

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

I was a peripheral fellow, regarded with deep suspicion from every quarter...

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

I know the first film I ever saw — it must have been some time in 1924, when I was six or so... was Black Beauty.

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

We went to morning services in variouis places and were deeply impressed by the spiritual poverty of these churches, by the lack of any congregation and the miserable spiritual status of the clergy, the poverty of their sermons, and the nonchalance and indifference of the ritual.

Bergman on Bergman (1970)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ingmar Bergman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.