Quote by Michael Haneke
Ive never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making

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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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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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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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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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom. – Javier Bardem

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I dont want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world. – Mitt Romney

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Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. – A. Philip Randolph

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I think theres some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. – Alan Rickman

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