
film director
Diretor de cinema e roteirista austríaco (nascido em 1942)
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Join the roomMichael Haneke é um diretor de cinema e roteirista austríaco aposentado, nascido na Alemanha. Seu trabalho frequentemente examina questões sociais e retrata os sentimentos de alienação experimentados por indivíduos na sociedade moderna. Haneke fez filmes em francês, alemão e inglês e trabalhou na televisão e no teatro. Ele também ensina direção de cinema na Film Academy Vienna.
“I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television. I don't work in television anymore myself, but I'm constantly hearing from colleagues who present scripts to networks and are told, "The script is too complex. You have to keep it simple because the audience is dumb. You can make more money for the advertisers that way."”
“Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth. But if a film isn't a work of art, it's just complicit with the process of manipulation.”
“All of my films constitute a reaction against mainstream cinema. Every serious form of art sees the receiver as a partner in the undertaking. In fact, that's one of the preconditions of humanistic thought. In cinema, this fact, which should be self-evident, has been overlooked and replaced by an emphasis on the commercial aspects of the medium.”
“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”
“I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it's totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That's been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.”
“Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.”
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