"I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me."

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Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

Christian Boltanski

#Father Quotes #War Quotes #Believe Quotes

“To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.”
“I wish that I was where I am.”
“I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.”
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”

Source : John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”
“Trust me when you love something you don't need motivation.”
“Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.”
“I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.”

Source : "Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington & Meaghan Rath Talk BEING HUMAN Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 29, 2012.
“I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.”

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