Michael Haneke said this quote

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

~ Michael Haneke

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different versions of Caché (Hidden). The point being that, despite what TV shows us, and what the news stories tell us, there is never just one truth, there is only personal truth.

~ Michael Haneke

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That’s been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.

~ Michael Haneke

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

~ Michael Haneke