Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

- Michael Haneke

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

- Michael Haneke

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had t…

- Michael Haneke

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness …

- Michael Haneke

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

- Michael Haneke

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie t…

- Michael Haneke

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to…

- 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 th…

- Michael Haneke

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

- Michael Haneke