I wrote Scenes from a Marriage just for fun and didn’t know what to do with it. It was like Winnie the Pooh. You know, Christopher Robin was ill and, every evening before sleep, A. A. Milne told him one … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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 Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure—the costly, exacting mistress. —Ingmar Bergman Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, May 19, 2013
To me, when cinematography is at its best, it is very close to the state of dreaming. You know, in any other art you can’t create a situation that is as close to dreaming. Think only of the time gap. … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, April 13, 2013
I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is Winter Light. That is my only picture about which I feel that I have started here and ended there and that everything along the way … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, March 28, 2013
I’d prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art. —Ingmar Bergman Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, February 3, 2013
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. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 23, 2012
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly into our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. —Ingmar Bergman Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, September 3, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 