It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny. Michael Haneke More Quotes by Michael Haneke More Quotes From Michael Haneke I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you. Michael Haneke atmosphere parent important To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. Michael Haneke imagination faces blood Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms. Michael Haneke return healthy thinking 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 difficult-situations hate art To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge. Michael Haneke degrees film challenges It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations. Michael Haneke writing two people I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance. Michael Haneke progress film helping I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art. Michael Haneke book art thinking Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days. Michael Haneke age country firsts It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances. Michael Haneke able different games If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie. Michael Haneke different principles years In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know. Michael Haneke distance black-and-white reality It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case. Michael Haneke impossible-things political religious Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. And I think it's healthy to return to classical forms. Michael Haneke healthy thinking I always seek to mobilize, to call on the imagination of the spectator. It's well-known that the images that are created by one's imagination are far stronger than any that I can show. In fact, it's an error, a widespread error in mainstream cinema, to always want to show things and to depict things. Michael Haneke stronger imagination Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. Michael Haneke filmmaker audience film You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt. Michael Haneke film-critics knowing hurt Usually, when making a film, the surprises are negative surprises. You don't get what you wanted or what you hoped for. The only nice surprises are those that are offered to you by actors when they offer you these gifts, when they are better and give you more than what you had originally conceived. That doesn't happen every day on set, but if it happens a couple of times in the course of making a film, you can consider yourself very lucky. Michael Haneke nice couple giving In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended. Michael Haneke unexpected-gifts cinema actors 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. Michael Haneke dangerous murder enemy
