We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.