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Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#hold #how #keep #knows #make

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ↗

— Terry Hands

#history #make #may #mistakes #moral

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#film #filmmaker #genre #make #only

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#best #film #flight #give #him

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #into #involved #jokes #keep

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more? ↗

— Tom Hanks

#amount #could #day #end #end of the day

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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