Ingmar Bergman Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

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

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Twilight, Film Directing

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

• When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Fashion, Art, Play

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Twilight

• There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Music, Art, Emotion

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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