I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry. . . and miserable. I think it's awful.
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?
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Do not dehumanize others.
I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them.
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. . . . Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.