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It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances. -- Michael Haneke
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
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
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
Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low. -- John McEnroe
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. -- Karrie Webb
Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself. -- Paul Coffey
Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world. -- Bob Hope
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
Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it. -- Hans Ree
It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game. -- Andrew Flintoff
Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game. -- Doug TenNapel
The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game. -- Stephen Curry
It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then. -- Alex Graves
I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it. -- Graham Moore
It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor. -- Gaines Adams
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport! -- Sania Mirza

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