During a career that spans some four decades, he has made about 50 movies, and in those movies he has created an immediately recognizable world. Whether it is the distant allegorical realm of The Seventh Seal or the banal domestic one of Scenes From a Marriage, this world is a place where faith is tenuous; communication, elusive; and self-knowledge, illusory at best. God is either silent (as in Winter Light) or malevolent (as in The Silence), and Bergman's characters find themselves ruled, instead, by the capricious ghosts and demons of the unconscious.
More persuasively than any other director, Bergman has mapped out the geography of the individual psyche — its secret yearnings and its susceptibility to memory and desire.
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Michiko Kakutani in "Ingmar Bergman: Summing Up A Life In Film" in The New York Times Magazine (26 June 1983)Ingmar Bergman
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No director in human history has ever made or will ever make worse movies. Warhol makes Ed Wood look like Ingmar Bergman.
Andy Warhol
For me the filmmaker Bergman is the greatest actor of all. His vision and his filmic force, the thing that the Frenchmen call auteur. What Kurosawa and Fellini also have — but to me Bergman is number one!
Ingmar Bergman
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics — religion, death, existentialism — to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He’s like a miner digging in search of purity.
Ingmar Bergman
The truth is nobody finances tiny movies anymore. I mean there are so many movies I like that I hope will get their money together. It's a different world than it was when I first started making independent movies. Something is really wrong right now. I was a part of it and things are so different now. You can't make a movie for three million dollars with a kind of known actor. It's impossible. I think in general it has to do with the financial state of the country. It's tough for everybody in every business, but the independent movies have really suffered I think…they would never have made Secretary. They never would have financed Secretary with an unknown actress and James Spader. There's just no way.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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