Listening to what people were saying wasn’t even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying. Errol Morris Read Quote
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful. Errol Morris Read Quote
If we’re reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It’s unavoidable. Errol Morris Read Quote
When ‘The Thin Blue Line’ came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn’t dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical. Errol Morris Read Quote
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It’s harder than it sounds. Errol Morris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We all know that yellow journalism didn’t just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us. Errol Morris Read Quote
