Quotes by John Grierson - Page 1

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Art
Hammers
Mirrors
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I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Cinema
Looks
Use
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We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Travel
Adventure
States
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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Strikes
Village
Became
More And More
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Heart
Lying
Paradox
Propaganda
Repetition
Throat
Becomes
Lie
Oblique
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Art
Information
Most Powerful
Powerful
Propaganda
Statesmanship
Forms
Consequently
Directive
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Believe
Real
Taken
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Critical
Done
Manipulation
May
Results
Symbols
Way
Imperative
Masses
Quick
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Corporate
Facts
Individual
Outlook
Valuable
Harmful
In Fact
More And More
Transmitted
Unless
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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
John Grierson / Film Producer
Art
Believe
Cinema
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The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Miserable
Satisfied
Effect
Received
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Corporate
Cultivation
Lines
Sensibility
Training
World
May World Will
Cooperative
Purely
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Cruelty
Doorstep
Drama
Earth
Ends
Exotic
Exploitation
Malnutrition
Slums
Beware
Wherever
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Important
Opinion
Two
Conflicting
Perilous
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Importance
Matter
People
Political
Urgency
Conflicts
Disguised
Matters
Merely
Sense
Vital
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Appreciation
Leadership
Smile
Creative
Human Relationships
Patterns
Representing
Technological
Account
Attend
Forces
Pattern
Relationships
Therefore
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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
John Grierson / Film Producer
Phrases
Profound
Real
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Aberration
Common Good
Human Spirit
Oneself
Philosophy
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
School
Regarded
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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Discovery
Distinguished
Exploration
Focus
Hundred
Individual
Middle
Middle Ages
Universe
Ages
Hundred Years
Objective
Playground
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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Attitude
Hegel
Planning
Relative
Absolute
Total
Marx
Suggested
Undoubtedly
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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.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Achieve
Capitalist
Entering
Function
Initiative
Interim
Loss
Mere
Planning
Socialist
Views
Would Be
Absorb
Central
Individual Initiative
Neither
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