I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
— The Magic Lantern
Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director, considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema and a prominent figure in both European and Swedish film.
Among his most acclaimed works are The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, all included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. The same magazine ranked him No. 8 on its 2002 list of the Greatest Directors of All Time. His other notable films include Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence. His memoir The Magic Lantern and The Seventh Seal are his most quoted works in our library.
Among his most acclaimed works are The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, all included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. The same magazine ranked him No. 8 on its 2002 list of the Greatest Directors of All Time. His other notable films include Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence. His memoir The Magic Lantern and The Seventh Seal are his most quoted works in our library.
Most quoted works
- The Magic Lantern 3
- The Seventh Seal 2
Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!
— The Seventh Seal
One has to manage alone as best one can.
— The Magic Lantern
One will probably have to manage alone as best one can.
— The Magic Lantern
Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends. Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets? Death: I have no secrets. Antonius Block: So do you know nothing? Death: I am unknowing.
— The Seventh Seal
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.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.