Quote

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

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
Everything
Matter
Mind
World
Reside
Gray
Inside
Brain
Doe

More quotes by Errol Morris

Image
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
Errol Morris
Image
Basically, Making a Murderer chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.
Errol Morris
Image
The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
Errol Morris
Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
Errol Morris
Image
The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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
Image
There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
Errol Morris
Image
Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
Errol Morris
Image
The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
Errol Morris
Image
I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, Yeah, get yourself a different woman.
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
If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
Errol Morris
Image
Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
Errol Morris
Image
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
Errol Morris
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 me a good thing.
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
When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
Errol Morris
Image
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
Errol Morris
Image
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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