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.
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Yellow is capable of charming God.
No bad man can be a good poet.
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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