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.

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

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

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

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.