Errol Morris Quotes
I asked Donald Trump if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."
Quotes to Explore
-
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
-
If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
-
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
-
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
-
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
-
Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
-
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
-
Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
-
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
-
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
-
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
-
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
-
It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
-
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
-
I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
-
Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
-
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
-
Iniurium est de poeta male sobrio lectorem abstemium iudicare.
-
I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me.
-
If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.
-
I asked Donald Trump if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."
