Talk:Ingmar Bergman

The article in Sydsvenska Dagbladet
The quotes from the supposed article in Sydsvenska are in English, but AFAIK that newspaper is in Swedish. Are the quotes translated, and by whom? --Blenda


 * Do you have the original Swedish? It might help to refine the translation, if we don't get a translation source. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:09, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I don't, and it would also be easier to find it if the person who added the quotes would have specified the date of the article. --Blenda

I'd encountered some of these quotes at various sites, and searching for sources I believe that this link mirroring a post at the Rotten Tomatoes Forum in May 2002 was one of the earliest and most extensive that I found: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheNews/bergman_tarkovsky.html. I too would love to have more precise dates of the original sources of them, if that were possible. ~ Kalki 01:26, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry but the quotes of this supposed article (obviously a hoax) make Bergman look like a total jerk, dissing every filmmaker that ever lived (it even contradicts his actual feelings about Truffaut in the same article). I suggest taking these hysterical quotes down.

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Ingmar Bergman. --Antiquary 21:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Cinema is a language that literally is spoken from soul to soul in expressions that,almost senuously,escape the restricted control of the intellect.
 * ..in every case,some outside event had turned the key on some deep seated memory...each film was a projection of some past experience.


 * Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.


 * I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.


 * I handed the script to Svensk Filmindustri and they said "No, thank you". But then came the success with Smiles of a Summer Night and I got permission to make it, providing I did it in 35 days.
 * On the making of The Seventh Seal.