Errol Morris Quotes
What's great about documentary genre, 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."
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.
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We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
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We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
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I was very disappointed with the road trip. We had players injured and our team was not competing as hard as it could. The injuries hurt our team morale.
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There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.
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What's great about documentary genre, 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."
