I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself - Michael Haneke
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… - 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…
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. - Michael Haneke
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.
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… - Michael Haneke
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…
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 … - Michael Haneke
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 …
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… - Michael Haneke
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…
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message. - Michael Haneke
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems. - Michael Haneke
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
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… - Michael Haneke
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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