Haris Pasovic

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. ”

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. ”

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union. ”

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.' ”

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused. ”

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it. ”

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. ”

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs. ”

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. ”