Michael Haneke Quotes - Page 2

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• Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

  Michael Haneke

  War, Trying, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Empowerment, Cinema

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• I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "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.

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• I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

  Michael Haneke

  Way, Assault, Viewers

  "Minister of Fear" by John Wray, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2007.

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• 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.

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• Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

  Michael Haneke

  Film, Filmmaker, Audience

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

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• On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

  Michael Haneke

  Light, Trying, Soup

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• 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

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• Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

  Michael Haneke

  Children, Numbers, Directors

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• When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

  Michael Haneke

  Beautiful, People, Church

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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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• It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Two, People

  "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.

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• If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

  Michael Haneke

  Moving, Book, Reading

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

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• I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

  Michael Haneke

  Directors, Television, Starting Out

  "AFM 2012: 'Amour' Director Michael Haneke on Love and Oscar Buzz (Q&A)". Interview With Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. And I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Healthy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

  Michael Haneke

  Freak, Saying And Doing, Relaxed

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

  Michael Haneke

  Lying, Twenties, Four

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

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• 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

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• 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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• I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Hate, Difficult Situations

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. December 08, 2009.

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• There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

  Michael Haneke

  Luxury Hotels, Evil, Sitting

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• Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

  Michael Haneke

  Different, Accepting, Inevitable

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• 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

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• It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Character, Two

  "AFM 2012: 'Amour' Director Michael Haneke on Love and Oscar Buzz (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

  Michael Haneke

  Father, Men, Good Relationship

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

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