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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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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My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man. – Michael Haneke

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relationship
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Because Im the author of my screenplays I know what Im looking for. Its true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but its also a question of working with patience and love. – Michael Haneke

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Patience
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson

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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. – Jonathan Sacks

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Society

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Society

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. – Theodore Parker

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respect

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. – Euripides

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Learning

Its an amazing thing to say, Im beautiful, without feeling like youre cocky. – Christina Aguilera

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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan, 1963

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