I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and extremely emotional. Perhaps it is not even a 'he,' but a 'she.'

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

I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today, I think I would say, 'You are…

I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness…

Emotion: 'Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.'

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now mel…

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.