Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

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.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.