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.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

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

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

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.

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