165 Quotes by Michael Haneke

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.