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

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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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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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. – Michael Haneke

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Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it… thats different. – Michael Haneke

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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night

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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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