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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.

— 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)

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)

When film is not a document, it is dream.

On Andrei Tarkovsky in Laterna Magica (1987)

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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