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“I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.” quote by Michael Haneke — Download Open image

“I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.”

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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 about themes, or problems, or ideas. But those are actually things that develop out of characters, out of images and out of other things. These more abstract things develop while working on the material, and out of it.…

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

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In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of…

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

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“There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to simply be entertained. I have to be careful , because it sounds like I am condemning, or criticizing what people are doing. I have nothing against that, in the same way that some people like rock…

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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…

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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 -…

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Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the…

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Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

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Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other…

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As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory?…

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Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human…

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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

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So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth.…

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Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know.…

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[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

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