“War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become in...” — Haris Pasovic Quote

War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

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.

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.

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

There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.