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Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.

— Ingmar Bergman

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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)

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

Ingmar's self portrait (1957)

Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Laterna Magica (1987)

I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.

Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (1960)

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