"Listening to what people were saying wasn't even……" — Errol Morris
"Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying."
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31 Quotes by Errol Morris
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Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is…
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape,…
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to…
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the…
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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