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Michael Haneke
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"Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
History
"To me, it’s far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It’s far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Imagination
"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."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Funny
"‘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."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Funny
"It’s unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they’re like a baby – it’s not so funny."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Funny
"I’ve never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn’t, I didn’t do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don’t have."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Freedom
"You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Experience
"Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that’s ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience."
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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Experience
"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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Michael Haneke
Topic(s):
Death
"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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Michael Haneke
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