Ingmar Bergman

One can live in a state of complete self-deception.

We are surrounded by a world we cannot understand, a world of shadows and illusions.

In our world, there is room for both the Chaplins and the Strindbergs.

The worst thing a critic can do is to be boring.

I have never made a film that did not, in one way or another, touch upon my relationship with my parents.

I am a perpetual seeker, but I have lost the object of my search.

The human face is the great subject of the cinema. Everything is there.

I am a liar, but an honest one.

I don't watch my own films. I become depressed when I see them.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of being humiliated. Of being shown up.

I think I have made fifty-five films, and I have never once had a problem with an actor.

I am a storyteller, and the cinema is my medium.

We are all storytellers, and we all live in the stories we tell ourselves.

The silence, the silence of God, is the most deafening noise of all.

If one is ashamed of one's fears and tries to hide them, then they grow and grow until they dominate one completely.

I have always been fascinated by the borderline between dream and reality.

I have never been able to reconcile the idea of a loving God with the world as it is.

To be an artist is to be sick, but to make art is to try to get well.

The only thing that can save us is self-knowledge.

I am a person who carries a lot of ghosts inside.