Bosniak - Director | July 16, 1961 -
Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
Haris Pasovic
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Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.
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Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
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I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.
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My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.
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In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
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Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.
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People have to have food for their souls.
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The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to replace these two industries - the industry of political conflict, the industry of human rights - with normal, creative walks of life.
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I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist - that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person.
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My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where the Great Mosque and the Catholic Cathedral and the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral stand almost within touching distance of each other.
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