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
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
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to… — 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
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations. — 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
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
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
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 Image
What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them. — 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 question of… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — 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 much greater… — 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 time, to… — 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 not. I'm… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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