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Michael Haneke
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“I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television. I don't work in television anymore myself, but I'm constantly hearing from colleagues who present scripts to networks and are told, "The script is too complex. You have to keep it simple because the audience is dumb. You can make more money for the advertisers that way.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51
“Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth. But if a film isn't a work of art, it's just complicit with the process of manipulation.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51
“All of my films constitute a reaction against mainstream cinema. Every serious form of art sees the receiver as a partner in the undertaking. In fact, that's one of the preconditions of humanistic thought. In cinema, this fact, which should be self-evident, has been overlooked and replaced by an emphasis on the commercial aspects of the medium.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51
“Today's conventional cinema, or mass cinema, doesn't take the receiver seriously as a partner. It sees the audience member as a bank machine, whose only function is to spit out money.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51
“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 (born 1942) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Film as catharsis". Haneke, Michael – "": in Austria (in)felix: zum österreichischem Film der 80er Jahre – Bono, Francesco (ed.), 1992.
“Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. Propaganda is far more pornographic than a home video of two people fucking.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My favourite film-maker of the decade is Abbas Kiarostami. He achieves a simplicity that's so difficult to attain.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it's totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That's been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lawrence, Chua. "Michael Haneke", BOMB Magazine, Summer, 2002. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
“Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.”
Michael Haneke (born 1942) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the meaning of pigeons in his movies, "Michael Haneke talks about Amour , interview by Karin Schiefer, Austrian Film Commission, May 2012