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Errol Morris
American
Director
Born:
Feb 5
,
1948
About
Because
People
Think
Truth
You
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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
You
Phone
Other
Intimacy
Phone Call
Kinds
Emerge
Never
Call
Occur
Were
Person
Sitting
Might
Next
Certain
Right
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
Errol Morris
You
Will
Think
Otherwise
Interview
Considered
Properly
Investigation
Know
Yield
Should
Why
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
Good
People
Fear
Country
Reflect
Down
Think
Damn
Once
Some
Perhaps
Ideas
Issues
Years
Years Ago
Died
Done
Going
Stop
Movie
Hole
Again
Rabbit
Vietnam
Forty
Forty Years
Here
Millions
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
Errol Morris
Truth
Truth Is
Style
Believe
Think
Would
Would-Be
More
Material
Truthful
Any
Conveyed
Full
Presentation
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Errol Morris
Absurdity
Ecstatic
Confrontation
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
Errol Morris
Everything
Dreadful
Would
Would-Be
Equally
Planned
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Errol Morris
World
Control
Despite
Our
Something
More
Powerful
Than
Efforts
Us
Much
Deranged
Even
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.
Errol Morris
You
Think
Photograph
Going
Again
Create
Thing
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
Errol Morris
Truth
You
Journalist
Think
Some
Pursuit
Part
Proud
However
Want
Describe
Level
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
Errol Morris
Me
Other
Tabloid
New
Come
Like
Lot
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Stories
Newspapers
Fascinated
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Errol Morris
People
Starts
Interviewing
Interviews
Slowly
Stuff
Surely
Always
Itself
Movie
Then
Start
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
You
Everything
Way
Almost
Almost Everything
Like
Because
Making
Left
Gets
Behind
Tip
Movie
Iceberg
Little
Connection
Actually
I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
Errol Morris
News
Together
Son
World
Sit
Would
Tabloids
Weekly
Read
Taught
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
Errol Morris
Like
Yeah
Stories
Sleazy
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.
Errol Morris
You
Values
Think
Kind
Somehow
Fact
Balanced
Normal
Anything
Literature
Eternal
Meant
Reasonable
What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'
Errol Morris
Great
Me
You
License
About
Diverse
Seems
Documentary
Lot
Umbrella
Experimental
Things
Filmmaking
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
Errol Morris
Work
Money
Made
Trouble
Big
Films
Statement
Would
Would-Be
Fact
Never
Without
Off
Commercial
Any
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris
Good
Other
Good Reason
Only
Writer
Had
Feel
Documentary
Became
Because
Block
Decades
Reason
Four
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