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Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Caché, Funny Games, The White Ribbon and Amour.

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.

Tags: Freedom, Liberty, View

Michael Haneke

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Tags: Life, Hope, Boxing

Michael Haneke

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.

Tags: School, Believe, Enjoy

Michael Haneke

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Tags: Great, Confidence, Woman

Michael Haneke

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

Tags: Science, Without, Soul

Michael Haneke

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

Tags: Simple, End, Give

Michael Haneke

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.

Tags: Good, War, Art

Michael Haneke

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

Tags: Did, Young, Wanted

Michael Haneke

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

Tags: Different, Quite, Games

Michael Haneke

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Tags: Human, Made, American

Michael Haneke

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