Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

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...

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 older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

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....

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...

But we see such different things.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

[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...

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.

[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...