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
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
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
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film.… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German… — 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
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
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
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
My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see… — 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
Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand.… — 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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