Woody on Bergman

Part I & Part II

To me, philosophical question, the existential questions, the religious questions were more interesting to me personally. I've been influenced specifically by him. Just as one writer influenced by another writer.

He explores these questions and dramatizes some the best thinkers on the subject and does it with enormous theatricality.

You don't come away depressed, you come away with exhilarated feelings, because you're in the presence of great art.

The way it was shot.... was hypnotic. The choice of color, and the choice to do the subject matter poetically. He is really a poet.