...magical motif of coming to life: This little rickety machine was my first conjuring set. And even today I am really a conjurer, since cinematography is based...human weakness, an apparatus with which I can sway an audience in a highly emotional manner. . . . Thus I am either an impostor or, when the audience...

...identification even more strongly. As we have seen, Bergman delighted in the deceptions of "the conjurer's art": I have worked it out that if I see a film which has...can sway my audience in a highly emotional manner — make them laugh, scream with fright, smile, believe in fairy stories, become indignant, feel shocked,...

...excirement that I am really a conjurer, since cinematography is based on deceprion of human eye. . . . When I show a film I am guilty of deceit. I use an apparatus which is construcred to take advantage of a certain human weakness, an apparatus with which I can sway my audience...