“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.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: war
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“Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: attitude
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“Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: society
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“Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: home
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“My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: relationship
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“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.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: experience
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“All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: movies
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“I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.”
— Michael Haneke
Author: Michael Haneke
Category: business
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