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When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.

— Ingmar Bergman

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More quotes by Ingmar Bergman

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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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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