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.
'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
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