Tim Matheson Quotes

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

We are all missionaries (propagandists of our views). Each of us disapproves of the other missionaries.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

It takes an institution to help propagandize an idea.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

I will not have the Federal Theater used politically.

Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilized is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are, you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.