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 Read Quote
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There’s nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories. Errol Morris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don’t know how the story ends at the onset – that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along. Errol Morris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like ‘The New York Times.’ Errol Morris Read Quote
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. Errol Morris Read Quote
