Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

- Claude Lanzmann

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

- Claude Lanzmann

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 pref…

- Claude Lanzmann