I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.
Michael HanekeThe film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.
Michael HanekeIn German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
Michael HanekeAn artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
Michael Haneke