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
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a willingness to go to extreme lengths for the sake of artistic expression and success.
Ingmar Bergman's quote reveals the intense passion and sometimes ruthless nature of an artist's pursuit. It highlights the idea that true commitment to one's art can lead individuals to consider morally questionable actions in the quest for creative fulfillment, emphasizing the sacrifices made in the name of artistic integrity and ambition.
Themes
ArtSacrificeCreativityPassionMorality
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech at an art gala, one could use this quote to highlight the extremes artists go to in their dedication.
More from Ingmar Bergman
All quotes βTo shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
Ingmar BergmanRead
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.
Ingmar BergmanRead
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.
Ingmar BergmanRead
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
Ingmar BergmanRead
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.
Ingmar BergmanRead
Similar quotes
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
Andrei TarkovskyRead
The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.
Wayne CoyneRead
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
Carl SandburgRead
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James TaylorRead
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
Paul Thomas AndersonRead