"If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them."

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Source : "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

Michael Haneke

#Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Important Quotes

“In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.”
“Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.”
“I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.”

Source : "Paul Feig And John Francis Daley Talk Filmmaking And Remember 'Freaks And Geeks'". Interview with John Francis Daley, www.forbes.com. January 5, 2015.
“Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.”
“My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.”
“The first light had cast the first shadow.”
“When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.”

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