"People expect me to be dark and gloomy,……" — Michael Haneke
"People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist."
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46 Quotes by Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke has 46 quotes on this site.
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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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