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

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.