Quote

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

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
Stop
Start
Talking
Interviewing
Others
Enforced
Used
Listening
Kind
Perhaps
Way
Silence

More quotes by Errol Morris

Image
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
Errol Morris
Image
I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
Errol Morris
Image
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
Errol Morris
Image
I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was Can Capital Punishment Be Humane and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
Errol Morris
Image
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Errol Morris
Image
Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
Errol Morris
Image
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.
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 artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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 used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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
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
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
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 am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
Errol Morris
Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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
The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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