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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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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.
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As a private person, professionally I am invisible.
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In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
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That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.
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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.
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
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It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.
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Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.
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Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is it's what I want to do that matters.
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You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.
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Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.
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It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
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I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.
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The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.
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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.
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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.
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