[Bergman and Ullmann split after the pressures of their working and living together became too much. Bergman would obsess to his partner about his dreams.] When he told me about his nightmares, ... I knew I was going to film them the next day. |
[Ullmann, 66, still feels very close to Marianne.] Of all the things I did for Ingmar, this is the character I could most associate with, ... He based a lot of it on what he knew about me. I also felt she was the least neurotic of all the women I played for him. |
But we see such different things. |
He doesn't want to see people anymore. I know he has isolated himself almost completely. He reads a lot and goes to his writing table every day. For a while I thought he was writing a new film, but I don't think so now. I'll have to take a little peek when I go out there. |
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. |
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change. |
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. |
Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie. |
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. |
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap |
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. |
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. |
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. |