Michael Haneke Different Quotations

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

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.

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is always different. It's always the case. We never know what happened then.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.