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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.


Ingmar Bergman

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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
INGRID BERGMAN I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful p...
JACKIE DESHANNON John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.
ALEC BALDWIN Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with I...
LIV ULLMANN Success is a mental program. Deprogram your negative mind scripts and re-write your own positive scr...
MED YONES When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits...
WALLACE SHAWN Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the...
MARY ELLEN MARK I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic w...
STEVE ERICKSON I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Co...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless i...
JANE SMILEY Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through ...
ERIC KANDEL Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you ...
MAX VON SYDOW I don't think you should hurt or kill animals just to entertain an audience. Animals should have som...
JAMES MASON A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman ...
GILLIAN JACOBS I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte...
JASPER FFORDE Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
DR. THOMAS FULLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts and to write a new on...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
INGMAR BERGMAN People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question,...
INGMAR BERGMAN The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger lef...
INGMAR BERGMAN I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
INGMAR BERGMAN We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered fro...
INGMAR BERGMAN The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other pe...
INGMAR BERGMAN When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement....
INGMAR BERGMAN Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchi...
INGMAR BERGMAN I make all my decisions on intuition.
INGMAR BERGMAN Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
INGMAR BERGMAN I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. I...
INGMAR BERGMAN My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
INGMAR BERGMAN The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But ...
INGMAR BERGMAN There is something joyous about not talking.
INGMAR BERGMAN The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal import...
INGMAR BERGMAN I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to ...
INGMAR BERGMAN I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
INGMAR BERGMAN For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
INGMAR BERGMAN Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly t...
INGMAR BERGMAN Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tir...
INGMAR BERGMAN Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfyi...
INGMAR BERGMAN I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I m...
INGMAR BERGMAN Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straig...
INGMAR BERGMAN I hope I never get so old I get religious.
INGMAR BERGMAN Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
INGMAR BERGMAN I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely se...
INGMAR BERGMAN The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk...
INGMAR BERGMAN I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is ...
INGMAR BERGMAN Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
INGMAR BERGMAN I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt...
INGMAR BERGMAN Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
INGMAR BERGMAN Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It&#...
INGMAR BERGMAN Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put ...
INGMAR BERGMAN We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was ...
INGMAR BERGMAN Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and sl...
INGMAR BERGMAN I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fan...
INGMAR BERGMAN Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The s...
INGMAR BERGMAN The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my...
INGMAR BERGMAN Dear Wendy.
INGMAR BERGMAN It would make me so happy if I didn't have to write the scripts of my own books.
RICHARD PRICE I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons an...
HARVEY PEKAR I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script...
DEREK CIANFRANCE And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.
CAREW PAPRITZ I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European d...
RICHARD CORLISS If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Variety is the food of the flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The flesh still remains the flesh,irrespective of it's religious state,it's character never changes.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financi...
VITALIK BUTERIN Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it...
DAVID WONG If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters w...
TINA FEY I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
MAX VON SYDOW The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism o...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts th...
STEPHEN REA I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people wh...
MATT WALSH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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INGMAR BERGMAN Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchi...
INGMAR BERGMAN I make all my decisions on intuition.
INGMAR BERGMAN Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
INGMAR BERGMAN I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. I...
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INGMAR BERGMAN Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tir...
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INGMAR BERGMAN I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is ...
INGMAR BERGMAN Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
INGMAR BERGMAN I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt...
INGMAR BERGMAN Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
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INGMAR BERGMAN Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put ...
INGMAR BERGMAN We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was ...
INGMAR BERGMAN Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and sl...
INGMAR BERGMAN I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fan...
INGMAR BERGMAN Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The s...
INGMAR BERGMAN The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my...
INGMAR BERGMAN Dear Wendy.
INGMAR BERGMAN Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
INGRID BERGMAN I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is t...
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INGRID BERGMAN I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
INGRID BERGMAN I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about wha...
INGRID BERGMAN Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.
INGRID BERGMAN Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
INGRID BERGMAN The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory
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INGRID BERGMAN You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly w...
INGRID BERGMAN A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
INGRID BERGMAN It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
INGRID BERGMAN The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.
MORRIS BERGMAN There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
JACK BERGMAN Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough
INGRID BERGMAN A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tende...
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BRETT BERGMAN That's the real fast Mercedes, Don't print that -- you can't say that!
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INGRID BERGMAN I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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INGRID BERGMAN I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we'...
INGRID BERGMAN I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I did...
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DAVID BERGMAN There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes t...
LOWELL BERGMAN Alex Rodriguez is entering his third season with the Yankees, and there's still that, 'Is he a true ...
REED BERGMAN I´m no Sexgoddess but I haven't spent my life in a tree ...
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INGRID BERGMAN I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
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INGRID BERGMAN We are doing everything we can to keep the ball away from the goalie. It sounds simple, but that's o...
BLAKELE BERGMAN We are definitely thinking about getting to the state championship game. We won't be satisfied unles...
BLAKELE BERGMAN We beat them the year before at state, and we thought we had to just show up to beat them. We were t...
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CHRISTER BERGMAN We raced some of the hottest programs. We had comparable times and speeds with many of them. We'll b...
STAN BERGMAN My stroke wasn't really there. It was kind of a bummer. I still had OK times, but I still can't help...
DANIEL BERGMAN I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.
INGRID BERGMAN Be yourself. The world worships the original.
INGRID BERGMAN Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
INGRID BERGMAN I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was...
INGRID BERGMAN Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in W...
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DIANA BERGMAN My job is to assess the child's safety. I have to do what's best for the child.
DIANA BERGMAN They started using it in draft form for months. That tells me there is an extremely high demand.
DAVID BERGMAN With less than a year to go until the July 1, 2006 compliance deadline, no topic is hotter in the gl...
DAVID BERGMAN Unless the SAS gets its act together, it may only be a matter of time before it will be subject to a...
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STEVE BERGMAN You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the ti...
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INGRID BERGMAN He likes us to figure it out on our own.
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GEORGE BERGMAN Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
GEORGE E. BERGMAN I am moving as one with the universe.
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S. BEAR BERGMAN So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
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MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN to know your true value in a state brings forth good intentions and value into that which is Now for...
CATHERINE MARIE BERGMAN Our findings have the potential to be very significant on several fronts.
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