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… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
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… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to replace these… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in 'Hamlet' did happen several times… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
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,… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art is hope,… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
