I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God… — Errol Morris Copy Share
In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual… — Errol Morris Copy Share
When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth… — Errol Morris Copy Share
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris Copy Share
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people… — Errol Morris Copy Share
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris Copy Share
The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a… — Errol Morris Copy Share
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore. — Errol Morris Copy Share
Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to… — Errol Morris Copy Share
You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a… — Errol Morris Copy Share
Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a… — Errol Morris Copy Share
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. — Errol Morris Copy Share
Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying… — Errol Morris Copy Share
