"What are you hiding under your hand? Let me see. It's the photo of your little boy. The one you tore up. We must talk about it. Tell me about it, Elisabet. Then I will. It was one night at a party, isn't that right? It got late and quite rowdy. Towards morning someone in the group said: "Elisabet, you virtually have it all in your armoury as woman and artist. But you lack motherliness." You laughed because you thought it sounded silly. But after a while you noticed you thought about what he'd said. You became more and more worried. You let your husband impregnate you. You wanted to be a mother. When you realized it was definite, you became frightened. Frightened of responsibility, of being tied down, of leaving the theatre. frightened of your body swelling up. But you played the role. The role of a happy, young, expectant mother. Everyone said, "Isn't she beautiful? She's never been so beautiful." Meanwhile you tried to abort the foetus several times. But you failed. When you saw it was irreversible... you started to hate the baby. And you wished it would be stillborn. You wished the baby would be dead. You wished for a dead baby. The delivery was difficult and long. You were in agony for days. Finally the baby was delivered with forceps. You looked with disgust and terror at your squealing baby and whispered Can't you die soon? Can't you die?"

"I had a little frog once. A little green frog, very cute. And I loved that frog very, very much. It meant everything to me. And one day I woke up. The frog was gone. And I thought to myself that if the frog is gone, I'm going to kill myself. So I stood there in my boyroom with my stepfathers gun pointing at myself. Ready to kill. The little frog walks in to the room like this, and he stands and look at me. Then I understood. That if you really, really love someone, as my frog did with me, they can come back. And that's not only animals. It could be people also. So if Slim Susie loves you, she will come back, I promise. She's coming back. Be happy and jump on your moped and take a ride around the city and burn out and have fun. You and your moped. Thank you for listening. Over and out."

"I´m walking down the street of my hometown. Pölsa has no fear, but he has a lot of beer, skål!."

"We do occasionally get some tips. Do you know anyone by the name of Keyser Soze? Tony Montana?"

"Ich nicht Deutschland, go home!"

"Nils Poppe — Jof"

"Bengt Ekerot — Death"

"Max von Sydow — Antonius Block"

"Gunnar Björnstrand — Jöns"

"The Seventh Seal was always my favourite film, and I remember seeing it with a small audience at the old New Yorker Theatre. Who would have thought that the subject matter could yield such a pleasurable experience? If I described the story and tried to persuade a friend to watch it with me, how far would I get? 'Well,' I'd say, 'it takes place in a plague-ridden medieval Sweden and explores the limits of faith and reason based on Danish — and some German — philosophical concepts.' Now this is hardly anyone' idea of a good time, and yet it's all dealt off with such stupendous imagination, suspense, and flair that one sits riveted like a child at a harrowing fairy tale. Suddenly the black figure of Death appears on the seashore to claim his victim, and the Knight of Reason challenges him to a chess game, trying to stall for time and discover some meaning to life. The tale engages and stalks forward with sinister inevitability. Again, the images are breathtaking! The flagellants, the burning of the witch (worthy of Carl Dreyer), and the finale, as Death dances off with all the doomed people to the nether lands in one of the most memorable shots in all movies. Bergman is prolific, and the films that followed these early works were rich and varied, as his obsession moved from God's silence to the tortured relations between anguished souls trying to make sense of their feelings."

"Ulf Johanson – Jack's leader"

"Harry Asklund – Inn keeper"

"Gudrun Brost – Maid"

"Tor Borong – Farmer"

"Benkt-Åke Benktsson – Merchant (final film role)"

"Lars Lind – Young monk"

"Anders Ek – The Monk"

"Gunnar Olsson — Albertus Pictor"

"Bertil Anderberg — Raval"

"Gunnel Lindblom — The Girl"

"Inga Landgré — Karin"

"Maud Hansson — Witch"

"Inga Gill — Lisa"

"Åke Fridell — Plog"

"Erik Strandmark — Jonas Skat"

"Bibi Andersson — Mia"