Ingmar Bergman phrases

Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish theater screenwriter and director, winner of different cinematographic awards and distinctions. He was in contact with the work of other filmmakers, which influenced his creation, since many of his themes are impregnated with an atmosphere full of hopelessness and drama.

Bergman's visual narrative is slow, in order to allow viewers to reflect on the contents that arise, many of which are philosophical or very forgive.

Also, the characters take paths that carry them in the interiority, it is a look inward, disturbing and that always returns to the soul, to reflect and change the vital course.

For all this, their phrases deserve to be examined and analyzed, since they arouse deep concern.

Ingmar Bergman phrases

Some of Ingmar Bergman's most enigmatic phrases are the following:

I write scripts so that they work as skeletons waiting for the meat and the vigor of the images.

It has always been an obsession. In a way, making movies is very erotic. I don't know very well why. Not because you lie with actresses, it has to do with something else. I think it's because there is a complete emotional understanding. We are surrounded by people who are linked to us. (...) It's not me, at that time, it wasn't me. I was them and they were inside me. Making movies is like having a romance.

I make all my decisions for intuition. Avoid a spear to darkness. That's intuition. Then I must send an army to the dark to find the spear. That's the intellect.

Sometimes, at night, when I am on the boundary between sleep and vigil, I can enter through a door to my childhood and everything is like then, with the lights, the smells, the sounds, and the people ... I remember the silent street where my grandmother lived, the aggressiveness of the world of the elderly, terror for the unknown and the fear of tensions between my father and my mother.

I intuit a sunset that has nothing to do with death, but with extinction. Sometimes I dream that my teeth fall and I spitted yellow pieces. I retire before my actors or collaborators glimpse the monster and invade them disgust or compassion. I have seen too many colleagues die on the circus track as tired clowns, boring from their own boredom, whistled or booed or politely silenced, sections of the spotlights.

Aging is like climbing a large mountain: while the forces are raised, but the look is freer, the wider and serene view.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

There is no time to discuss loneliness.

Fear makes us look for a saving image and that image is God

My work is autobiographical, and it is in the same way that a dream transforms experience and emotions constantly.

I do not want to produce a work of art in which the public can sit and suck aesthetically ... I want to hit them in the spine, burn their indifference, start them until they end their self -complacency.

I am like an orchestra director. I look at the words as if they were notes and try to understand their meaning. Now I return to works that I read a long time ago and have another meaning.

When I was young, I was very afraid to die, but now I think it's a very wise arrangement. It's like a light that goes out. There is not much reason to make scandal.

The demons are innumerable, they arrive in the most inappropriate moments and create panic and terror ... but I have learned that, if I can dominate the negative forces and tie them to my car, then they can work at my advantage… the luces frequently grow from the bodies.

I don't feel writer. Not at all. I feel a theater man, films. Despite having written all my life because I wrote all my scripts and I have even written scripts for others, making movies and making theater is more accurate than writing because it has to do with my emotions and I could not give them directly.

I would like to have been a musician. Violinist or pianist. Because they see a note and can recreate it. I would also have wanted to be an orchestra director. They look at the score and can learn it by heart and can carry it everywhere. You can reach some precision.

I am a kid. I already said it once: my whole creative life comes from my childhood. And emotionally I am a kid. The reason why people like what I do or did is because I am a child and I speak to them as a child.

What I have tried to do during my life is to create things and give them life. Creative life is full of destruction and is constantly threatened. There are so many temptations, so many times you leave something you have wanted to do, there are so many commitments. I don't know what happiness is. Do you know what happiness is?

Only music gave me the opportunity to reveal my emotions.

My ghosts, my demons and my spirits never appear at night. They always appear in daylight.

Perfection must come when we play our games. It is very important because if we think that we do not need this perfection, we would not take our games seriously and then everything would be in vain.

In the cinema you cannot risk showing a bad minute. In the theater it is rather a process. If it does not go well, we try to improve it and every day it goes better. But cinema is different.

In truth, I live continuously inside my dream and make visits to reality.

Demons do not like fresh air, what they like best is that you stay at home with cold feet.

Reality may not be in everything I imagine. Maybe it does not exist, in fact. Maybe it only exists as an yearning.

They said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst.

We are grateful for the horrors that we are used to. The strangers are worse.

Each inflection and each gesture a lie, each smile a grimace.

Everyone likes happiness, nobody likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Faith is a torment, did you know? It's like loving someone who is out there, in the dark, but never appears, no matter how strong you call him.

I am living permanently in my dream, which I make short incursions into reality.

It is horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that it contains too much humanity.

If I don't think, I don't exist.

When you finish watching a movie, you never want to see it again.

I hate travel. I'm not going anywhere.

Generally, I say that I left puberty at 58.

Life is an uninterrupted and intermittent succession of problems that are only exhausted with death.

Cinema as a dream, cinema as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness such as cinema, direct to our emotions, deep in the soul twilight.

As seen, Ingmar Bergman's phrases have a depth as few authors offer it. They are firm sentences, about life, death, childhood and reality, issues that do not escape any human being.

Bibliography

• Bergman, i., Torres, m., & Uriz, F. J. (1988). Magic Lantern. Tusquets.
• Bergman, i. (2007). Ingmar Bergman: Interviews. UNIV. Press of Mississippi.
• Gado, f. (1986). The Passion of Ingmar Bergman. Duke University Press.
• Steene, b. (2005). Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide. Amsterdam University Press.