"Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide……" — Michael Haneke
"Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is."
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Michael Haneke
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46 Quotes by Michael Haneke
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To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy…
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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They…
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel…
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Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in…
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Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make…
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Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find…
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It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll…
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Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
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A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
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And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' -…
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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to…
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An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
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