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 hope I never get so old I get religious.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a skepticism about aging and its effects on belief systems.
Ingmar Bergman's quote expresses a humorous yet poignant concern about the loss of critical thinking that can accompany aging, particularly regarding one's beliefs and spirituality. It underscores the idea that getting older doesn't necessarily equate to becoming more wise or devout, and prompts reflection on the importance of questioning beliefs at every stage of life.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a discussion about the relationship between age and belief at a philosophical seminar.
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.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.
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