I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is Nattvardsgästerna (1962). Everything is exactly as I wanted to have it, in every second of this picture.
My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don`t exist any longer.
[On Andrei Tarkovsky]: When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn`t explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of stag...
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is Nattvardsgästerna (1962). Everything is exactly as I wanted to have it, in every second of this picture.
