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I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

Michael Haneke

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Michael Haneke
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 23
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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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A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.
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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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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
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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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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.
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What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.
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