This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

What I saw there was my own death.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.