We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.