“The film cannot be understood, it must be emotionally lived” – Weekend
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July 14, 1918 was born Ingmar Bergman – one of the greatest directors of world cinema and one of its main metaphysicians. We re-read his interview to understand why he peered so closely into the dark sides of life and what he hoped to see there.
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They gave me an injection and I lost my sense of time and space. This is an incredible state: I am and I am not. It brought me liberation and happiness.
2
I don’t want to create a piece of art that the public can sit and aesthetically suck at. I want to stab them in the gut, trample on their indifference, take them out of their comfort zone.
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I am well aware of the duality of my nature. One of my self – known to everyone – is always under control, everything is subordinated to the plan, everything is reliable. The other me is a little-known – not a very pleasant person. He is very impulsive and emotional, but it seems to me that he is responsible for all the creative work.
4
I sat in the choir, next to the organ, and when the funeral took place, I had a fantastic view of the procession, the coffin, black fabrics. Then, at the cemetery, I watched with interest as the deceased was lowered into the ground. I have never been afraid of these sights. I was fascinated.
5
The thought of God seems very unhealthy to me. The recognition of its existence means that there is something ideal in the world. In comparison, a person should feel like a snake crawling in the dust, and this is not very useful for a person.
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I don’t take sleeping pills, let alone drugs, because they scare me to death. I’m more than satisfied with what I have. I already have a lot of impressions that need to be processed and put in order. I’m very careful about new experiences. Maybe that’s why I prefer not to travel abroad.
7
Some films age beautifully, and some just age. It would be great if they, like theatrical productions, just disappeared.
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Most of the things that exist in the world scare me. Especially death. She haunted me so much that I made a film about her. “The Seventh Seal” is all built around death, it is present in every frame, and all the characters react to it in different ways. I still think a lot about death, but it seems that after this film it has ceased to be my obsession.
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Even in the most tragic scenes there must be some kind of joy, desire. And if this is not there, the picture will turn out just boring. And when the picture is boring, that’s the worst thing – you can safely go home and kill yourself.
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I’m not very pleasant to work with because when I’m in the cutting room, I’m obsessed.
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Reality always undermines your fantasies, dreams. Therefore, you have to tear out the details from it and transfer them to your own universe. But these details must fit perfectly into your universe so that it becomes a reflection of reality.
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When I was young, I built huge walls around me to protect myself. But now I’m 60 and I’ve had a wonderful life. I broke down the walls and now I’m improvising. But not in the studio, certainly not on the set.
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I love going back to my childhood. When I fall asleep, I imagine my grandmother’s rooms, as I walk through them. These memories are amazingly photographic. When I feel unhappy or defenseless, these memories comfort me. I always felt safe around my grandmother.
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I don’t care as much about my audience as I used to. I think I started making films more for myself. I just need to express myself.
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I’ve always admired westerns. From a technical and professional point of view, they are great, I learned a lot from them, but I myself will never be able to shoot this. I am too emotionally involved in what I do.
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Each viewer should perceive the film personally. The film cannot be understood, it must be emotionally lived. It’s like with music. Stravinsky once said, and I think this thought is brilliant: “I have not understood a single piece of music in my life, but I have felt them.”
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“Persona” is the result of the “crisis of truth” that I have formulated. I experienced it and felt that I wanted to speak out. What is truth? How do you know if someone is telling the truth? Then it seemed to me that silence was the only form of its expression. But then I realized that it was just another illusion.
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I think that we are all part of one big hodgepodge. We all borrow from each other, so I’ve never been shy about it. If I see something good, I appropriate it and make it mine. I think it’s the same with all art forms.
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The only thing I hate and despise is fashion. I hate it when someone rushes around with the same things, says the same things and considers himself very smart. And he thinks he makes smart films.
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For the most part, I saw the cinema as my only escape, the only place where I felt good. A place where my demons left me alone, where no one could get to me. The lights went out and I sat alone in complete darkness.
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