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I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Michael Haneke

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Michael Haneke
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 23
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