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
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Where this quote comes from
Ingmar Bergman wrote this in his autobiography Laterna Magica, published in 1987 and translated into English by Joan Tate as The Magic Lantern. The passage describes film as twenty-four lit frames a second with darkness in between, which the eye cannot register. Even at the editing table, he writes, he still feels the magic he felt as a child winding film frame by frame inside a wardrobe.
Source: The Magic Lantern (1987), trans. Joan Tate (1988)
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