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

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.

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 fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

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

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

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