“People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and af…” — Michael Haneke

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.