It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so… — 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