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

Other quotes by Michael Haneke

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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funny
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Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think thats ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience. – Michael Haneke

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Experience
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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! – Mother Jones

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck

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Freedom

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. – Jim Morrison

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Freedom

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. – Juan Antonio Samaranch

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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Coffee

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. – Herbert Simon

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Knowledge

Many seek good nights and lose good days. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t