I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance....
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear...
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 o...
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.