Quotes About Haneke

The scariest movies, to me, are like Michael Haneke's 'Amour.'

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.