Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that — Claude Lanzmann Copy Share Image
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]...… — Claude Lanzmann Copy Share Image
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that — Claude Lanzmann Copy Share Image
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. — Claude Lanzmann Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Claude Lanzmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d4/claude-lanzmann-70450_able_i-think-that-no-one-human-being-would-ha_1070394.jpg)
