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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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.

- 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…

- John Grierson