”Bergman was hyper-intelligent but I never liked him as a person. He was not a good man. All directors are control freaks but he was extreme. He did things to people that were not kosher. He didn’t destroy people to make them better actors: he destroyed them to utilise his power.
Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman, from an interview in the Guardian
(fact that no longer really bothers me: most of the great directors were total assholes).
From the footnotes:
Bergman directed Skarsgård on television in L’école des Femmes and on stage in A Dream Play.
(via criterioncast)
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