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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

Michael Haneke's Popular Quotes

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

- Michael Haneke

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had t…

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My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie t…

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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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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 …

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If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to…

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An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

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Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

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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 th…

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