Errol Morris Quotes

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material.

Errol Morris

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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Life
  • Control
  • Marriage

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Me

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Good
  • Control
  • Execution

• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Understanding

• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Doing
  • Films
  • Prefer

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
  • Danger
  • Rainbow

• I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I support all Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Support
  • Films
  • Australian

• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Films
  • Seeing
  • Carbon

• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Control
  • Teacher

• Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Same

• The 14 points for quality control apply anywhere, to small organizations as well as to large ones...:

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Small
  • Control
  • Quality

• State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • May
  • Political
  • Control

• If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Control

• I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

  

  Ben Shahn

• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Done
  • American

• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Today
  • Political
  • City

• There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Control
  • Films
  • Interview