Quote

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

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
Thinking
Anybody
Trust
Talk
Doesn
Really
Would

More quotes by Errol Morris

Image
If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
Errol Morris
Image
The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
Errol Morris
Image
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol Morris
Image
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
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
I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
Errol Morris
Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris
Image
I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
Errol Morris
Image
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
Errol Morris
Image
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
Errol Morris
Image
I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
Errol Morris
Image
I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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
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
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 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
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
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.
Errol Morris
Image
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
Errol Morris
Image
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
Errol Morris