I Want Knowledge. Not Belief.

Old Age Is Like Climbing A Mountain. You Climb From Ledge To Ledge. The Higher You Get, The More Tired And Breathless You Become, But Your Views Become More Extensive.

I Want To Stop. I Want To Stay On Fårö, And Read The Books I Haven’t Read, Find Out Things I Haven’t Yet Found Out. I Want To Write Things I Haven’t Written. To Listen To Music, And Talk To My Neighbors. To Live Together With My Wife A Very Calm, Very Secure, Very Lazy Existence, For The Rest Of My Life.

Among Today's Directors I'm Of Course Impressed By Steven Spielberg And Scorsese, And Coppola, Even If He Seems To Have Ceased Making Films, And Steven Soderbergh - They All Have Something To Say, They're Passionate, They Have An Idealistic Attitude To The Filmmaking Process. Soderbergh's Traffic Is Amazing. Another Great Couple Of Examples Of The Strength Of American Cinema Is American Beauty And Magnolia.

This Damned Ranting About Doom. Is That Food For The Minds Of Modern People? Do They Really Expect Us To Take Them Seriously?

I Have Thus Decided To Make A Certain Film And Now Begins The Complicated And Difficult-to-master Work. To Transfer Rhythms, Moods, Atmosphere, Tensions, Sequences, Tones And Scents Into Words And Sentences In A Readable Or At Least Understandable Script. This Is Difficult But Not Impossible.