I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.


As quoted in "Film master Ingmar Bergman dies at 89" by Myrna Oliver in Los Angeles Times (31 July 2007).

Cinema's brooding auteur of the psyche - latimes[latimes.com]

Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to...

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to...

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to...

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to...