We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.