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...ULLMANN: Well, I don't want to see that. Which, I'm sure, was one of the reasons why Ingmar never gave the script for me to direct. We look at life somewhat different...
...know, when actors do a movie with Ingmar we don?t ask, "What do you mean?" or "Is there really incest?" It's up to each of us to make a choice. I talked a lot to Julia Dufvenius, who played the daughter, and she didn't want to believe it either. So I think this is really up to the people who see it. But, obviously - probably - this was in Ingmar's mind, to describe an incestuous relationship. Whether they go the whole way or not maybe isn?t so important...
...ULLMANN: You really see something that Ingmar would have liked that you saw. And, probably, you are very much right...
...Remember that Ingmar knows to whom he's writing the parts. So there is no way that he would write a part [for an actress] if he knows that she wouldn't really understand it. If he thinks she can understand it, then he'll write it for her. Certainly he wouldn't have done this movie if it didn?t have Erland and he didn't have...
...ULLMANN: But absolutely. Both Bille August and I wouldn't do anything that wasn't Ingmar?s choice. But the choices were so obvious in all the cases for the leads. For Private Confessions I wouldn't want to work with anyone else but Pernilla August [the actress who was married to director Bille] because she had played the same woman, Ingmar's mother, in Best Intentions. She even looks like Ingmar's mother. And in Saraband, the dead woman Anna, seen in a photograph - she also looks like Ingmar's mother...