Quotes
Authors
Ingmar Bergman

"My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how. Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."

Source : "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

Ingmar Bergman

#Dream Quotes #Moving Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”
“Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.”
“Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (2002). “Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within”, p.77, Ignatius Press
“I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer”
“When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.”
“When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.”

Source : Denis Johnson (1983). “Angels”, Knopf
“Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.”
“As with editing, I think my strength as a writer is structure. It's not a skill that's much discussed when we discuss fiction, or not as much as language or character development anyway, but it's the first thing I determine before I begin writing - not just books, but anything. I think I know how to pace a narrative well. I think I'm aware of repetition, that I try to create different kinds of sentences as often as I can. Those are all things I learned from magazine editing.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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