"A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted."

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Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

Rudolf Arnheim

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“It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.”
“When your silent, people recognize your greatness.”
“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”

Source : Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968
“You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.”
“Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.”
“I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.”
“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”

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