We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

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.

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.

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

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

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

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.