I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.
Michael HanekeOf course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.
Michael Haneke