Quote by Michael Haneke
And I dont believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one ser

And I dont believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. – Michael Haneke

Other quotes by Michael Haneke

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 thats quite different. Funny Games is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. – Michael Haneke

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funny
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Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it… thats different. – Michael Haneke

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Death
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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

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Other Quotes from
Romantic
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

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Romantic

Something like Without a Paddle does really well at the box office and Im like, Oh, here we go. In Without a Paddle Im the romantic lead – great! A comedy and thats what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didnt get another shot. – Matthew Lillard

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Romantic

Dinner is a great first date. Dont believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date – sharing a romantic meal is so sexy. – Carmen Electra

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Romantic

When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer. – Author Unknown

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Romantic

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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. – Paul Erdos

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Im not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is. – Jane Seymour

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Politics

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world. – Al-Waleed bin Talal

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Technology