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 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.

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.

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 have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

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

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.