Errol Morris Quotes

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

Errol Morris

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• Interviews
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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Control
  • Collaboration

• I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Why
  • Think
  • Control

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Control
  • Pain

• Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Control
  • Hands

• I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Control
  • Player

• I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time.... what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Control
  • Growth

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Together
  • Team

• For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Smile

• The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Truth
  • Age

• I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Control
  • Interviews
  • Breaks down