Films Quotes by Michael Haneke

12 Films quotes by Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke’s 12 terse comments cut to the bone of cinematic truth. Their austere tone mirrors his signature style, giving a compact, unsettling taste of his worldview.

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I consider all my films experiments.

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I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

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What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my…

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Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think.…

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I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has…

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'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to…

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You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating…

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When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It…

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The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all…

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I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears…

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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature…

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A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

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