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The surrealists and the modern movement in painting as a whole seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema its violence its naivety the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.
Quotes By Michael Haneke
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And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films it would be...
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I love actors both my parents were actors and the work with actors is the...
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to...
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Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues...
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And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact no one seriously...
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People expect me to be dark and gloomy then write that I'm a jolly chap and...
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My father and I had a good relationship it was very relaxed. He had a lot of...
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Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's...
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To me it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more...
Quotes About Funny
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The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic...
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But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean of course there are...
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It is funny because the guy who is my boss now Howard Stern has a...
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I have a funny family but none of them are remotely in show business.
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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government the fundamentalists...
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So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been...
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People are funny and in the most tragic situations when comedy erupts from...
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It's funny though because when I first started going to races after we met...
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken...
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I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like and it doesn't go...