178 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

"I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams."

"I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that."

"One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it."

"Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude."

"I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities."

"Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop."

"Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful."

"First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little."

"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful."

"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal."