Quotes by : Michael Haneke

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little....

[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize....

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding....

[on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected....

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn....

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what....

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a....

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s totally....

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment....

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates....