...with which I can sway an audience in a highly emotional manner. . . . Thus I am either an impostor or, when the audience is willing to be taken in, a conjurer. I perform conjuring tricks with [an] apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any entertainer in history would have given anything...

...remind myself that I am a conjuror, since cinematography is based on deception of the human eye. ... I perform conjuring tricks with apparatus so expensive...entertainer in history would have given anything to have it."29 Bergman explores the ambiguities of magic, especially its negative side, in The Magician (1958)....

...fairy stories, become indignant, feel shocked, charmed, deeply moved or perhaps even yawn with boredom. Thus I am either an imposter or, when the audience is willing to be taken in, a conjurer. (Four Screenplays 15; italics mine) In the last sentence, the director expands his initial understanding...

...indignant, feel shocked, charmed, deeply moved or pethaps yawn with boredom. Thus I am either an imposrer or, when the audience is willing to be taken in, a conjurer. (Screenplays 15) The Tricycle Man constantly performs sleight-of-hand magic in the film; moreover,...