On Ingmar Bergman

This man is one of the few film directors — perhaps the only one in the world — to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

-- Krzysztof Kieślowski's BERGMAN'S SILENCE
http://bergmanorama.com/films/silence_kieslowski.htm


I think his films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

-- Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman, Time
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1648917,00.html