Games Haneke Quotes

#1. I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

Hal Sparks

#2. 'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Michael Haneke

#3. Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

Sextus Propertius

#4. To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

#5. 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.

Michael Haneke

#6. The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

#7. We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Frank Laubach

#8. I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes,

Jason Mraz

#9. Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

Robert Ruark

#10. It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

Michael Haneke

#11. I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

Roseanne Barr

#12. Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

Brian Wilson

#13. In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

Michael Haneke

#14. You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.

Michael Haneke