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.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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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.
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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.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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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.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
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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.
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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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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.
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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.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.
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You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.
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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.
