Ingmar Bergman

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.

I want to make films that are like dreams. I want to make films that are like music. I want to make films that are like life itself.

The human face is the most important thing in the world. It is the landscape of the soul.

I work in a medium that is very close to the dream. It is a dream that I am trying to communicate.

I believe that the film is a dream that we all share. It is a dream that we all participate in.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

I think the theatre is a place where you can really express yourself. In film, you're always a little bit at the mercy of the technology.

Who will receive me? Death. Where will you take me? Into nothingness.

Life is a state of constant decay, and yet we persist in believing it is eternal.

The demons are not in the external world, but in the human heart.

Silence is the only true language of the soul.

I am never afraid of death; it is the dying that frightens me.

Art is a confession, and the artist is the confessor.

We all have our demons; the trick is to learn to live with them.

The camera is like an eye that sees everything, but reveals nothing without direction.

Love is the impossibility to get up in the morning.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Film is truth 24 times per second.

Death is the great equalizer; it comes to us all, rich or poor.

I make films because I want to understand myself and the world around me.