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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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Funny Games was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then thats quite different. Funny Games is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. – 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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Ive never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldnt, I didnt do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out dont have. – Michael Haneke

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I dont like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that its your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. – Mark Ruffalo

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You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Marcus Aurelius

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. – Ahmet Zappa

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