Interesting remark by Huppert on playing Erika 'The Piano Teacher'

Included in her IMDb biog she is quoted as saying:
La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher), Michael Haneke talks about control and loss of control, and he was filming a woman who I felt was more identified with the situation of the director. This is a woman who controls her desire, exactly as a director controls his own desire and the audience's desire. In the film, the woman is not the object of desire, she is the one who wants to control her desire. That is why as a film - I'm not even talking about the story - as a film it is interesting because he has changed the status of an actress in a film. That is why the sexual scenes were easier for me to do because I am not set up in the usual situation of being an object of a man's desire, I am the one who controls the desire of the man. So I felt completely protected by this change of focus. I found parts of The Piano Teacher erotic, but not necessarily sexual. I'm still a bit shaken by the film. It has an emotionally searing quality. The character Erika was so open in verbally expressing her sexual desires and yet there was very little that was sexual between her and her pupil. I think the control that Huppert speaks of is broken down, if not gone completely when he rapes her at the end. Although as we see in the closing scene she resumes some semblance of control.
I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl