A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a… — 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
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
You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy. — 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