At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

I'm able to not jump when everyone else is jumping. So they give you an option,

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.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.