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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."

— Michael Haneke

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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Today's conventional cinema, or mass cinema, doesn't take the receiver seriously as a partner. It sees the audience member as a bank machine, whose only function is to spit out money.

Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

My favourite film-maker of the decade is Abbas Kiarostami. He achieves a simplicity that's so difficult to attain.

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