This chapter lists a selection of published interviews and interview articles, as well as radio and television interviews with Ingmar Bergman. Note however that interviews (including brief broadcast interviews often done by telephone) which address a specific film or play production are listed in the Commentaries to the appropriate item in the Filmography, Media and Theatre Chapters (IV, V, VI). Some interviews dealing exclusively with theatre items are cross-listed in Theatre/Media Bibliography, Chapter VII. Bergman's self-interviews in early theatre programs are listed in Chapter II (Bergman as Writer). See also list of TV documentaries in Varia, which usually include interview material.

1940

684. N.A. ‘Energisk amatörteater i Gamla stan’. DN, 7 April 1940, p. 12A. See Theatre/Media Bibliography, (➣ 493).

1942

685. -LL. ‘Sex pjäser på två månader’ [Six plays in two months]. SvD, 28 September 1942, p.11. Annotated in (➣ 494), Theatre/Media Bibliography.

1944

686. JACKSON. ‘Teatern är ingen lyxvara’ [Theatre is no luxury article]. MT, 8 March 1944, p. 3. More fully annotated in Theatre/Media Bibliography, (➣ 499).

Bergman begins to formulate his role as stage director.

1945

687. N.A. ‘Har teatern försuttit sina chanser?’ [Has the theatre missed its chances?]. SDS, 16 September 1945, p. 3, 12.

An unsigned interview with Bergman about current status of Swedish theatre and film. Bergman advocates more repertory companies to create job security for actors and is critical of film overproduction in Sweden.

688. JOLO (Jan-Olof Olsson). ‘Endast Gud, Dr. Dymling och jag…’ [Only God, Dr. D. and me]. Filmjournalen, no. 15 (April) 1945, p. 19.

Reporter and author Jolo meets Bergman at the Hälsingborg City Theatre where Bergman has been a director since fall season 1944. Bergman expresses an early auteur wish to make a film based on his own story. He reveals that he has written several film manuscripts and/or plays and mentions the following titles: ‘Sjätte budet’ [The Sixth Commandment], about marital infidelity; ‘Dimman’ [The Fog], about a jealous mother who murders her son's fiancee; and ‘Matteus Mandus fjärde berättelse’ [M. Mandus’ fourth tale], about a perverse young man who recognizes the advantage of being mentally sick. However, Bergman is skeptical that any of these manuscripts will ever find the financial support necessary to film them. See also ➣ 19, 23