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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.

— Michael Haneke

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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.

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. Propaganda is far more pornographic than a home video of two people fucking.

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