I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
Michael HanekeWhen you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.
Michael HanekeOn the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.
Michael Haneke