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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.


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MICHAEL MOORE At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cock...
MICHAEL DIRDA I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white ...
MICHAEL TREVINO We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibil...
MICHAEL MCCAUL Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have ...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. S...
MICHAEL CAINE I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.
MICHAEL STEGER Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the ...
MICHAEL PERLIS I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
MICHAEL BAY I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my pho...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to th...
MICHAEL GREGER One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the co...
MICHAEL SCHEUER When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that...
MICHAEL ENZI Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to dev...
MICHAEL GURIAN Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
MICHAEL DIAMOND We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that ...
MICHAEL MOORE I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect m...
MICHAEL REAGAN There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral gallerie...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
MICHAEL FRANTI Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. Th...
MICHAEL PALIN The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to...
MICHAEL SANDEL