I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)

Vilgot Sjöman: Vilgot

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• Vilgot Sjöman : Do you have to have a religious belief to take part in a non-violent movement?

  Martin Luther King : No, not necessarily.

  Vilgot Sjöman : If you find that a person cannot stand being attacked, what do you do with him? Do you speak to him and explain to him that he cannot be with you any longer?

  Martin Luther King : Well, we always discourage those who cannot be subjected to attack - the one who would retaliate with violence - not to participate in a demonstration. The rules are very rigid in a non-violent movement and we feel that a person who can't take it - a person who cannot submit himself to violence if it comes to him and who would retaliate with violence - should not at all participate and so we discourage that person completely.

  Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : I like him. He talks about better things than Palme.

• Self - Minister of Transport : I have found this problem of a class system in Sweden to be a tough one.

  Vilgot Sjöman : What is your own background?

  Self - Minister of Transport : I come from a middle-class family. You read, you see what's happening, and suddenly a pattern emerges. This happened to me between the ages of 15 and 20, when I observed American society.

  Vilgot Sjöman : You traveled in the States? When?

  Self - Minister of Transport : In '47-'48. I hitchhiked. Through 34 states. Three months with no money. I've been influenced by a lot of things I've read. Fiction has enormous political importance, and political economics and visual impressions. It's a good mixture.

• Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : Do you see that guy? His name is Magnus. He's an actor. He'd be great as the slave.

  Vilgot Sjöman : Him?

  Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : I could have a love scene with him.

  Vilgot Sjöman : What kind of love scene?

  Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : Just a quickie, you know.

  Vilgot Sjöman : Well...

• Vilgot Sjöman : It's a damned shame she doesn't understand politics. But God, drama students!

• Vilgot Sjöman : I smuggled Lena into my bed. She doesn't dare tell her mom she's spending the night with me. Her mom thinks she's spending the night with a girlfriend. Bergman always used to say it's bad to fall for your star. You get blind to her affectations. It never happened to him, though.

• Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : You're crazy! You want a girl in your film and a girl in your bed, don't you? And if you can combine the two, all the better, right?

  Vilgot Sjöman : So what? Don't you want the leading role and someone in bed, too? So who is using whom?

  Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman : Okay, but no on the same terms.

• Vilgot Sjöman : Foreigners tend to think that we're far ahead of everyone else. Are we?

  Mårten Palme : Compared to other countries, yes. And compared to Sweden's situation 30-40 years ago, too. But we haven't come far in making our dream of an egalitarian society come true. Most of the work is yet to be done.

• Vilgot Sjöman : This country's like a duck pond. It just goes quack, quack, quack.

  Marie : We haven't trained our political reactions, see. Every Swede who votes is full of ideas he doesn't dare express.

  Vilgot Sjöman : You're cute when you get excited.