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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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