Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

It's really amazing to see what you imagined brought to screen.

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

I have been a fan of movies from a very young age, and somehow, the magic of that - every single time I hear something or read something that could be made into a wonderful film or something somebody is asking me to be a part of - that connects. It just makes me feel like I'm going to be part of something magical again.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Cinema is like dream.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.