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Quote by Michael Haneke
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke

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To me, its far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. Its 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

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Imagination
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Michael Haneke
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Drama lives on conflict. If youre trying to deal with social issues seriously, theres no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. – Michael Haneke

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Society
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Michael Haneke
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When I first envisioned Funny Games in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable. – Michael Haneke

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funny
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. – Marian Wright Edelman

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. – Lewis Mumford

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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. – Annie Lennox

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