I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar BergmanRead
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Interpretation
Film uniquely touches our emotions and dives deep into our innermost feelings.
This quote by Ingmar Bergman emphasizes the profound impact of film as an art form, suggesting that it transcends ordinary experiences and connects directly with our emotions. Through its visual and narrative power, film can explore the depths of human consciousness and evoke deep emotional responses, allowing audiences to experience profound feelings that resonate within their very souls.
In practice
In a discussion about the power of storytelling in movies.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of oneβs own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
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