July 15, 2004

"Cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade."

Ingmar Bergman, who is retiring after the production of his last play, had this to say for the inspiration of all those of us who intensely admire his films:
"Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade."

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