Michael Haneke (1942) Austrian film director and screenwriter
[Christopher Sharrett, http://www.kinoeye.org/04/01/interview01.php, Austrian film: Michael Haneke interviewed, Kinoeye, 20 September 2011]
“That's the ultimate pornography… There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.”
1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Variant: There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
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