Claude Lanzmann Professions : Filmmaker Born : November 27, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Claude Lanzmann Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that. Claude Lanzmann constructs powerful wanted I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. Claude Lanzmann imagination said 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. Claude Lanzmann records looks thinking Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors
