Michael Haneke Two Quotations

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors...if they are good.

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.