“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

“One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)”

“One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)”

“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.”

“I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.”

“Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.”

“I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.”

“From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'”

“My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.”

“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”

“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.”