The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated,. . And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that. '.
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.
I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.