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
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disgui… - John Grierson
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disgui…
- John Grierson
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.… - John Grierson
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.…
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 pe… - John Grierson
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 pe…
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 coopera… - John Grierson
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 coopera…
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… - John Grierson
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…
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
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.
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
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. - John Grierson
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
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, regar… - John Grierson
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, regar…
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