30 Best Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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. – Ingmar Bergman

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. – Ingmar Bergman

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. – Ingmar Bergman

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

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful. – Ingmar Bergman

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

The human face is the great subject of the cinema. – Ingmar Bergman

I want very much to tell, to talk about, the whirling flow of thoughts and feelings that go through my mind. – Ingmar Bergman

Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. – Ingmar Bergman

I live in a world of phantoms and dreams, and I have the greatest difficulty in finding my way. – Ingmar Bergman

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. – Ingmar Bergman

We must all make our own lives. No one can do it for us. – Ingmar Bergman

I have never made a film that did not in some way touch upon my relationship with my parents. – Ingmar Bergman

It is my opinion that art lost its creative urge the moment it was separated from worship. – Ingmar Bergman

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency. – Ingmar Bergman

The demons of the past are my faithful companions. – Ingmar Bergman

What is art? A question that has been asked for centuries. For me, art is the human capacity to make something wonderful and unique. – Ingmar Bergman

I think I have been in a light sleep all my life, but now I am awakening. – Ingmar Bergman

The theater is as elementary a human need as love or food, and in the same way it must be accessible to everyone. – Ingmar Bergman

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. – Ingmar Bergman

I was a dreamer who didn't give a damn about reality. – Ingmar Bergman

I have never thought about the audience. For me, the audience doesn't exist. – Ingmar Bergman

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit. – Ingmar Bergman

I am a collector of moments. – Ingmar Bergman

The actor is the most direct and immediate instrument of the art of the theater. – Ingmar Bergman

I am a sinner, and I am going to hell. But I am an artist, so it's all right. – Ingmar Bergman

I don't make films for the audience. I make them for myself. – Ingmar Bergman

The silence, the silence of God, is the most deafening noise I know. – Ingmar Bergman

I have always been fascinated by the human face and its capacity for expression. – Ingmar Bergman

To be an artist is to be wounded. – Ingmar Bergman