It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it?… — 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
The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump]. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking? — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 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