Michael Haneke Quotes

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to ...

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaki...

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it...

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that t...

[on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpe...

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's th...

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-...

There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have ...

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of av...

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real w...

[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't ...

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is wha...

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s total...

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubbo...

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fear...