Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (TV Movie 2006) - Peter Eisenman as Self

Peter Eisenman : Usually in experiences you expect to find something: You go to the center and you find the Holy Grail and you find the fountain and you throw a stone in. Here people for the first time are wandering around and there is nothing to find, nothing but finding yourself walking in this place and you know, they probably start out saying 'what's the point?' and at a certain point, 'what's the point?' starts to change and that is what is interesting when you begin to get them into the place, that the point is that there is no point. And I think what's wonderful is to see so many people being happy here and I think the fact of being happy is something that will open up the Germans to relaxing their anxiety about the guilt. The Germans that I have seen here don't seem to feel much guilt right, and that is great because this was not intended to be guilt-inducing.
Peter Eisenman : I once said in an interview, that I thought what I didn't like about Germany is I would come over as an American and I would go home as a Jew, and what I meant was, people bent over backwards to make me feel good because they know I am Jewish, to sort of be good to me and I am tired of people being good to me, I just want to be treated as a person and what is nice, is people are not being good to this place, they are just being as they are and I think that's so important.

Peter Eisenman: Self