Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)
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He made films about God's silence, death's certainty, and the impossible distance between two people in the same room — and somehow those films became landmarks that half the world's directors still measure themselves against.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Sweden on 14 July 1918 and spent six decades turning the camera inward, writing and directing more than 60 films that treated the psyche and the soul as legitimate dramatic territory. The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, both from 1957, established him internationally; Persona in 1966 pushed form itself to the edge. He worked with a tight company of actors — Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson — and shot most of his later films on the island of Fårö, forging a creative partnership with cinematographers Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvis…
Sourced, dated quotes from Ingmar Bergman
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant.
I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man.
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being.
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