Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait… — 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
