It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against. — 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
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people… — 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
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… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — 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
In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is… — 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
People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I… — 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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