„[…] this so-called 'frame' of Persona is, it seems to me, only the most explicit statement of a motif of aesthetic self-reflexiveness that runs through the entire film. […] it states on the formal level the theme of doubling or duplication – that is present on a psychological level in the transactions between Alma and Elizabeth.“ – Susan Sontag: Persona, in: Sight & Sound, Herbst 1967, (PDF; 11 S., 88 kB, englisch), aufgerufen am 8. Februar 2018.
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„I thought to myself that I would never create anything anymore; I was completely empty, almost dead. The montage at the beginning of the film is just a poem about that personal situation.“ – Interview mit Ingmar Bergman (Memento vom 13. Juni 2013 im Internet Archive) in Charles Samuels: Encountering Directors, Capricorn Books, New York 1972, S. 179–207.