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."

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• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Everything
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Old
  • Retire

• 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.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• 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.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Different
  • Looking

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Help
  • Best
  • Try

• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Me
  • Show

• 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.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• 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.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Art
  • Things
  • Religion

• Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Security
  • Shadow

• 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.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Black
  • Start
  • Black-and-white

• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Women
  • Industry
  • Unhappy

• The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

  

  Bobby Robson
  • Important
  • Football

• A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Good
  • Long
  • Trying

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • Hurt
  • Victory
  • Immigration

• I asked Donald Trump if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."

  

  Errol Morris
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Advice