Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

— Errol Morris

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly…

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One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to…

— Errol Morris

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

— Errol Morris

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

— Errol Morris

“A trial is not a science fair, but rather a magic show. A show based on appearances and logical fallacies and sleight…

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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

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a…

— Errol Morris

I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line…

— Errol Morris

If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop.…

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[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet…

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You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim…

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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and…

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I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that…

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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of…

— Errol Morris

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

— Errol Morris

In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?

— Errol Morris

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

— Errol Morris

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but…

— Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

— Errol Morris

I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of…

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What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that…

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People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different…

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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's…

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People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or…

— Errol Morris

There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see…

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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know…

— Errol Morris

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to…

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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece…

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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what…

— Errol Morris

People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no…

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What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do…

— Errol Morris

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or…

— Errol Morris

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake.…

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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and…

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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a…

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Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how…

— Errol Morris