Errol Morris

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about…

— Errol Morris

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

“Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly.”

— Errol Morris

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

— Errol Morris

I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."

— Errol Morris

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

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

— Errol Morris

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier,…

— Errol Morris

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

— Errol Morris

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

— Errol Morris

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

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

— Errol Morris

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other…

— Errol Morris

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the…

— Errol Morris

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

— Errol Morris

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as…

— Errol Morris

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are…

— Errol Morris

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

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

— Errol Morris

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

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside…

— Errol Morris

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of…

— Errol Morris

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had…

— Errol Morris

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of…

— Errol Morris

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

— Errol Morris