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" Art can articulate new ideas. "
Ideas
New Ideas
Art
" Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience. "
World
Life
Art
" Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege. "
Primal
Art
Even
" 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, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something. "
Art
Freedom
Meaning
" Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity. "
Nature
Human Nature
Culture
" Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union. "
More
Union
Europe
" Every time has its own 'Hamlet.' "
Time
Own
Every
" Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations. "
Football
Human
Poor
" 'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture. "
Problems
Us
Religion
" I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist - that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person. "
You
Person
Always
" I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in 'Hamlet' did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history. "
Stories
Happen
Like
" Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it. "
Place
Europe
Key
" In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life. "
War
Changes
Everything
" 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 huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us. "
Think
Creativity
Like
" I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs. "
I Am
Empty
Always
" Life is not just food, it's something spiritual. "
Life
Food
Spiritual
" Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?' "
Question
Why
War
" My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial. "
Need
People
Together
" 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 each other. "
Theatre
West
Great
" My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring. "
Theatre
Boring
Serious
" People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth. "
Speak
Say
Truth
" People have to have food for their souls. "
Souls
Food
People
" The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems. "
People
Earth
Need
" Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience. "
Experience
Me
Theatre
" The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to replace these two industries - the industry of political conflict, the industry of human rights - with normal, creative walks of life. "
Creative
Two
Political
" The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused. "
Suffering
War
More
" The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art is hope, and it is found in hope, and that's why we need to share our experiences and cherish art. "
Art
Hope
Festivals
" There's no real theatre without taking risks. "
Risks
Theatre
Taking Risks
" The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world. "
Independence
Happiness
World
" To come to the theatre, people have to make arrangements, change their clothes, find a babysitter, find a parking space - and they don't come after hard work to hear a lecture. "
Change
Work
Hard Work
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