Errol Morris Quotes

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris

Proper, Errors, Route

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris

Past, Remember, Cannot

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
Errol Morris

Times, Stories, York

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
Errol Morris

Movies, Stories, Actual

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
Errol Morris

Everything, Making, Almost

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
Errol Morris

Fact, Story, Along

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.
Errol Morris

Time, Amazing, Made

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol Morris

Big, Between, Making

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Errol Morris

Person, Might, Next

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Errol Morris

Powerful, Control, Efforts

Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
Errol Morris

Stories, Yeah, Sleazy

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Errol Morris

Absurdity, Ecstatic

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.
Errol Morris

True, May, Others

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.
Errol Morris

Important, Nothing, Wrong

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris

Good, Fear, Done

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
Errol Morris

Lie, Point, Less

I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
Errol Morris

Truth, Full, Style

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris

Good, Reason, Writer

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.
Errol Morris

Almost, Listen, Engaged

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
Errol Morris

Together, Son, Read

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
Errol Morris

Why, Interview, Yield

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
Errol Morris

Character, Someone, Compliment

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
Errol Morris

Work, Used, Private

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
Errol Morris

Writing, Stuff, Written

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
Errol Morris

Crazy, Person, Problem

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Nationality: American

Born: February 5, 1948

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