Michael Haneke Quotes

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

I like things to be orderly.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

Order is the key to all problems.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

I always work from an outline.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

There's always some room for improvisation.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

I'm a great believer in outlines.