Ingmar Bergman
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Aging is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.
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Andrei Tarkovsky is the greatest director, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.
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Art is a domain that lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself.
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Death is the deeply satisfying in that it boils down to the simple action whereby first one is, then one isn't.
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Ennui is most terrible in the overwhelming feeling that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
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Film is capable of going beyond ordinary consciousness better than any other art, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
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Film is more like the dream than any art-medium. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events – we're participants in a dream.
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Film is magic. Half of the time you sit watching the blackness between each frame, enveloped in complete darkness in the theater.
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Film is contrasted with theater in that the theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
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Improvisation is only really available as an opportunity for one who is well prepared.
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Intellect is sending an army into the darkness to find the spear that intuition has thrown there.