I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory." — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false… For truth, properly considered, is about… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop.… — 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… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake.… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the… — 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
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![“This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera…” quote by Errol Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/349/errol-morris-2512_cameras_this-uses-a-lens-system-which-i-have-use_2997204.jpg)
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