Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish filmmaker known for his themes of existentialism, grief and the human condition who has been assessed by the admins of this site as INFJ.

Quotes

 * "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."
 * "Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral."
 * "A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it."
 * "I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being."
 * "If I let myself go, nothing will get done."
 * On Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: "He had little money, and this picture tells very much about him. Not very good things. He is completely infantile, and I would like to know more — no, I don't want to know — about his behaviour with, or, rather, against women. But this picture is very interesting."
 * On Orson Welles: "Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the drain, you see, that's when he's croaks. In my eyes he's an infinitely overrated filmmaker."
 * "I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful,"
 * Roger Ebert: "It is very rare for Bergman to invite visitors -- the word "outsiders" almost seems to apply -- to one of his sets."
 * Andrei Tarkovsky: "I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism." Far from being symbolic, he seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him."