Quotes by John Grierson

John Grierson

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

Art

Information

Powerful

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

Art

Hammers

Mirrors

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

Drama

Earth

Exotic

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

Cinema

Looks

Use

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

Phrases

Profound

Real

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

Facts

Individual

Outlook

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.

Important

Opinion

Two

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.

Loss

Views

Would Be

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people’s sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Matter

People

Political

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.

Philosophy

Pursuit Of Happiness

School

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Art

Believe

Cinema

Creative

Done

Drama

Earth

Exotic

Facts

Hammers

Heart

Important

Individual

Information

Leadership

Lines

Looks

Loss

Lying

Matter

May

Mirrors

Opinion

Outlook

Paradox

People

Philosophy

Phrases

Political

Powerful

Profound

Pursuit Of Happiness

Real

School

States

Taken

Training

Travel

Two

Use

Views

Way

World

Would Be

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Quotes by John Grierson

John Grierson

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

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people’s sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

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.

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