Errol Morris Quotes
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
Quotes to Explore
-
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
-
I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
-
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
-
When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
-
There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
-
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
-
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
-
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
-
I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
-
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
-
All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
-
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
-
I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
-
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
-
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
-
I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
-
All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
-
I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.
-
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
-
I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.
-
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
-
White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.
-
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
