I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I always seek to mobilize, to call on the imagination of the spectator. It's well-known that the images that are created by… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think.… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them. — Michael Haneke Copy Share
In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
“There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors -… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share
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