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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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