Michael Haneke Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Imagination, Important

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

• I always seek to mobilize, to call on the imagination of the spectator. It's well-known that the images that are created by one's imagination are far stronger than any that I can show. In fact, it's an error, a widespread error in mainstream cinema, to always want to show things and to depict things.

  Michael Haneke

  Imagination, Stronger

  Source: film.avclub.com

• To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

  Michael Haneke

  Blood, Imagination, Faces

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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