We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

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

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

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

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

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.