Quote

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Errol Morris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
Terribly
Depressed
Right
Mean
Going
Time
Horribly
Lately
Consuming

More quotes by Errol Morris

Image
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
Errol Morris
Image
People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
Errol Morris
Image
I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
Errol Morris
Image
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Errol Morris
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 her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.
Errol Morris
Image
I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.
Errol Morris
Image
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris
Image
It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
Errol Morris
Image
I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
Errol Morris
Image
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
Errol Morris
Image
Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
Errol Morris
Image
Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
Errol Morris
Image
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
Errol Morris
Image
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
Errol Morris
Image
You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.
Errol Morris
Image
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
Errol Morris
Image
We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
Errol Morris
Image
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
Errol Morris
Image
The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
Errol Morris
Image
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
Errol Morris