Quotes by : Michael Haneke

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

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking....

[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....

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....

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears....

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

There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a....