"I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality."
"No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business."
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Source: Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg. Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries), December 26, 1957.
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