Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Claude Lanzmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann.
Last updated on November 12, 2024.
Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).

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.
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that. — © Claude Lanzmann
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
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