A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people