Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

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

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.

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

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

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.