Citas de John Grierson

• En el documental nos ocupamos de lo actual y, en cierto sentido, de lo real. Pero lo realmente real, si se me permite la expresión, es algo más profundo que eso. La única realidad que cuenta al final es la interpretación que es profunda

  John Grierson

  Real, Profound, Phrases

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• Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

  John Grierson

  Art, Mirrors, Hammers

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

  John Grierson

  Cinema, Looks, Use

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.16, Univ of California Press

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• La paradoja oblicua de la propaganda es que la mentira en la garganta se convierte, por repetición, en la verdad en el corazón.

  John Grierson

  Lying, Heart, Paradox

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• Cuando es imperativo obtener resultados rápidos, la manipulación de las masas mediante símbolos puede ser la única forma rápida de conseguir que se haga algo crítico.

  John Grierson

  Done, May, Way

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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

  Drama, Exotic, Earth

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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

  Art, Believe, Cinema

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.146, Univ of California Press

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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

  Real, Taken, Believe

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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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

  Art, Powerful, Information

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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

  Facts, Individual, Outlook

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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

  Two, Important, Opinion

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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

  Personas, Política, Importancia

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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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

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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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

  Training, World, Lines

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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

  Philosophy, School, Pursuit Of Happiness

  John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive

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• Considero que tales manifestaciones representan el liderazgo creativo de las nuevas fuerzas de pensamiento y apreciación que acompañan a los cambios en el modelo tecnológico y, por tanto, en el modelo de relaciones humanas en la sociedad.

  John Grierson

  Leadership, Appreciation, Creative

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• We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

  John Grierson

  Travel, Adventure, States

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.193, Univ of California Press

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