Michael Haneke Quotes

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers с spoon-fed images.

Michael Haneke

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• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Body

• A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Film
  • Lose
  • Los Angeles

• Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • War
  • Control
  • Dreams

• There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Faith
  • Traditions

• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Tried
  • Object

• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Day

• I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Need
  • Dresses

• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Religion

• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

  

  P. Sathasivam
  • Work
  • Law
  • Government

• Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • See
  • Go
  • Let Go

• I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Sea
  • Drink
  • Bass

• You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Up
  • Men
  • Trying

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Expression

• I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Think
  • Writers
  • Revere

• I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Work
  • Sound
  • Integrity

• I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers с spoon-fed images.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Watch
  • Consumers
  • Spectator