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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. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#audience #completes #consumers #film #give

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#child #contrary #difficult #director #disturbing

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 think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#check #constantly #favorite #front #going

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

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#appearance #beard #bit #elegant #father

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#broke #did #disgusted #girl #going

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

— Michael Haneke

#avoid #course #death #different #feel