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Persona (1966, Bergman) "I don't think that a director should make easy films either for himself or for his audience. He should try to lead his audience a little farther with each succeeding film. It's good for the public to work a little." --- Ingmar Bergman

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Full Excerpt: "I think that making a film comprehensible to the audience is the most important duty of any moviemaker. It's also the most difficult. Private films are relatively easy to make, but I don't think that a director should make easy films either for himself or for his audience. He should try to lead his audience a little farther with each succeeding film. It's good for the public to work a little. Still, the director should never forget for whom infact he is making his film. In any case, it's not as important that a person who sees one of my films understands it here, in the head, as it is that he understands it here, in the heart. This is what matters. I never wanted to make merely intellectual films. I wanted audiences to feel, to sense, my pictures." (Bergman's interview with Bert Cardullo, 2004)

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