It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, ….

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in….

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts..

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see..

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images..

There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hu….

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness..

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if y….

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman).

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric..

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot..

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of ….

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul..

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms..

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I mu….

I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities..

I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the ….

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the pur….

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little..

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .….

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect..