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

Michael Haneke

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Michael Haneke
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 23
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I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.
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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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Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
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Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.
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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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And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
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A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
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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.
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It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film [Funny Games]under very different circumstances.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
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It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
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I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.
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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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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.
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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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