Michael Haneke Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Giving, Watches

• Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

  Michael Haneke

  Way, Film, Express Yourself

• Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

  Michael Haneke

  Lying, Film

• Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Excellence, Directors

• Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

  Michael Haneke

  Problem, Film, Used

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2001.

• I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.

  Michael Haneke

  Progress, Helping, Film

  "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.

• You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.

  Michael Haneke

  Hurt, Film Critics, Knowing

  Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

• I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

  Michael Haneke

  Parent, Atmosphere, Important

• What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

  Michael Haneke

  Stupid, Film, Treats

• And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

  Michael Haneke

  War, Goes On, Way

• To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.

  Michael Haneke

  Challenges, Degrees, Film

• The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.

  Michael Haneke

  White, People, Trying

  "The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is always different. It's always the case. We never know what happened then. So my approach with the narrator is to question that, to leave that open, to underline the fact that this is uncertain.

  Michael Haneke

  Reality, Historical, Different

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

  Michael Haneke

  Awards, Important, Directors

• Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

  Michael Haneke

  Directors, Violence, Film

• If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

  Michael Haneke

  Cutting, Want, Film

• It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.

  Michael Haneke

  Religious, Impossible Things, Political

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Black And White, Reality

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Names, Violence

  "Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

• It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

  Michael Haneke

  Games, Different, Able

• The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!

  Michael Haneke

  Children, Kids, Hands

  "The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.

  Michael Haneke

  Lying, Dumb, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

  Michael Haneke

  Lying, Twenties, Four

  "Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

• I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Reflection, Thinking

• Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Simple, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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