Haris Pasovic

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual. ”

We need the daring visions. To go to theatre must be different than to go to shopping. We adventure together, we journey through the mindful and emotional landscapes, we create together an event, unique and unrepeatable. ”

There's no real theatre without taking risks. ”

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. ”

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. ”

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial. ”

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. ”

My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring. ”

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. ”

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity. ”