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
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so. — 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
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
I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Image
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image