"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."

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Source : "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

Ingmar Bergman

#Art Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.”
“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”
“If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.”
“I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.”
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
“It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you donâ€™t see anything happening doesnâ€™t mean God is not working”
“You only think of the best comeback when you leave.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon talks about Fever Pitch". movieweb.com. April 04, 2005.
“There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.”

Source : Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.

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