Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Lucien Bourjeily

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Lebanese director Lucien Bourjeily.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Lucien Bourjeily is a Lebanese writer and director of both theater and film. He was behind the first professional improvisational theatre shows in the Middle East; defying all censorship laws still applicable in this region: peacefully challenging social and cultural barriers using theatre to set off dialogue, encourage free speech, and as a true force of positive change. He is a Fulbright scholar and holds an MFA in Filmmaking from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Lebanese - Director

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People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.

Lucien Bourjeily

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

Lucien Bourjeily

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

Lucien Bourjeily

Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.

Lucien Bourjeily

If you want to get into the shoes of someone, it's not just about seeing and hearing. It is also about what you touch and what you smell. Smell is so specific and so powerful. And this is the beauty of immersive theatre - it's something you cannot get in any other art form. I think this is the real future for theatre.

Lucien Bourjeily

There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.

Lucien Bourjeily

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

Lucien Bourjeily

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

Lucien Bourjeily

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

Lucien Bourjeily

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

Lucien Bourjeily

We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

Lucien Bourjeily

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Lucien Bourjeily

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Lucien Bourjeily

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