26 Quotes by John Grierson

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

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.

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

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

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 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.

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.

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.