I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. – Ingmar Bergman
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. – Ingmar Bergman
I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one’s worth in the market. Mine was zero. – Ingmar Bergman
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can’t for a moment be equal to the suffering you’ve caused. – Ingmar Bergman
I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole. – Ingmar Bergman
The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. – Ingmar Bergman
I don’t watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry… and miserable. I think it’s awful. – Ingmar Bergman
I’m very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. – Ingmar Bergman
We didn’t know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life. – Ingmar Bergman
Life wasn’t about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society – with God at the top, then the king and then the father. – Ingmar Bergman