“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. Thus we finally gather in one large pen, where we stand and bleat about our loneliness without listening to each other and without realizing that we are smothering each other to death. The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.”

“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.”