I hope I never get so old I get religious.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'