Portal:The arts/Selected quote/8

“ I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically ... I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency. ”

— Ingmar Bergman

Source

• Oliver, Myrna (July 31, 2007). "Film master Ingmar Bergman dies at 89". Los Angeles Times.