I think I have made just one picture that I really like..

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality..

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth..

I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a….

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. ….

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate fro….

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to g….

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views beco….

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom li….

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe..

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it..

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other..

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No ….

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitu….

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it..

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a ne….

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, li….

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….

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress..

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure..

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….