Director Michael Haneke told producer Veit Heiduschka during the production that if the film was a success, it would be because audiences had misunderstood the meaning behind it.
Funny Games (1997) | (2007) Dir. Michael Haneke

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within. It had stood so for a hundred years before my family moved in, and it might stand for a hundred more.