Claude Lanzmann Quotes

• Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Powerful, Wanted, Constructs

  "IFC Films to Re-Release Landmark Documentary Shoah" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Imagination, Said

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• I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Thinking, Looks, Records

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