Ingmar Bergman Quotes (7 Quotes)

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, ... And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.'

Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship . . . In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.