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I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it's totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That's been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.

— 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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