Errol Morris

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

— Errol Morris

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

— Errol Morris

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

— Errol Morris

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

— Errol Morris

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

— Errol Morris

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used…

— Errol Morris

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

— Errol Morris

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right,…

— Errol Morris

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

— Errol Morris

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth…

— Errol Morris

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in…

— Errol Morris

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

— Errol Morris

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false… For truth, properly considered, is about…

— Errol Morris

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know…

— Errol Morris

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier,…

— Errol Morris

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know…

— Errol Morris

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some…

— Errol Morris

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people…

— Errol Morris

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

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of…

— Errol Morris

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know…

— Errol Morris

We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did…

— Errol Morris

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

Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If…

— Errol Morris

I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be…

— Errol Morris

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where…

— Errol Morris

Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that…

— Errol Morris

Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories,…

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."

— Errol Morris

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

— Errol Morris

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

— Errol Morris

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris