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.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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.

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

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.