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Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.


Michael Haneke


#back #been #century #demands #director

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


Michael Haneke


#close #closer #contradictions #dream #dream world

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.


Michael Haneke


#everything #fact #mentally #outer #outer world

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.


William L. Jenkins


#being #changed #course #felt #over

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.


Michael Haneke


#american audience #american cinema #american films #audience #beings

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.


Michael Haneke


#art #crime #earns #effect #films

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.


Ismail Haniyeh


#asks #democracy #introduced #respect #results

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.


Ismail Haniyeh


#am #among #claiming #compelled #definitively

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.


Ismail Haniyeh


#envisaged #haunted #israeli #june #later

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.


Colin Hanks


#anything #between #familiar #fascinated #feels






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