Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal (1957)

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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

Ingmar Bergman

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

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Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

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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.

Ingmar Bergman

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

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We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer...

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