Here’s Ingmar Bergman on stealing like an artist:
“I’m not one of those who believe that an artist grows up out of nothing and starts to bloom with no nourishment at all. I believe we’re all part of a great hodgepodge, so we take from each other, and I’ve always been completely uninhibited in that regard. If I see something good, I steal it and make it my own.”
Bergman gets quoted in chapter 9 of Keep Going: “The demons hate fresh air.”