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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
#Bag
#Love
#Parents
#Trust
#Work
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
- Michael Haneke
#Act
#Best
#Film
#Jump
#Up
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.
- Michael Haneke
#Dark
#I Am
#Me
#Romantic
#Work
'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country.
- Michael Haneke
#Clear
#Country
#Matter
#Place
#White
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.
- Michael Haneke
#Answer
#Cinema
#Home
#Questions
#Society
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
#Cinema
#Escape
#Hate
#World
When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.
- Michael Haneke
#Film
#First
#Me
#Say
#Terrible
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
#Audience
#Film
#Must
#Thinking
#Who
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
- Michael Haneke
#Difficult
#Father
#Me
#Men
#See
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
- Michael Haneke
#Accept
#Avoid
#Death
#Feel
#Know
My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.
- Michael Haneke
#Know
#Mother
#She
#Uniform
#Young
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
#Doing
#Evil
#Good
#Guilty
#World
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
- Michael Haneke
#Film
#Hide
#Music
#Problems
#Used
A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
- Michael Haneke
#Feature
#Film
#Lies
#Second
#Twenty-Four
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.
- Michael Haneke
#Coffee
#Long
#Look
#Simple
#Work
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
- Michael Haneke
#American
#Cinema
#Funny
#Violence
#Way
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
#American
#Know
#Stand
#Violence
#Why
There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.
- Michael Haneke
#Laughter
#Recognition
#Us
#Way
#Yourself
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
- Michael Haneke
#Looking
#Love
#Patience
#Stubborn
#True
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.
- Michael Haneke
#Audience
#Feel
#Funny
#People
#Respond
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
- Michael Haneke
#Art
#Attitude
#Expectations
#Literature
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
- Michael Haneke
#Believe
#Children
#Go
#Innocent
#Own
#Romantic
#Sweet
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