Audience Quote by Michael Haneke

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

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

— Michael Haneke

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

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

— Michael Haneke

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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