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

• 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

• 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
  • Shadow
  • Security

• 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

• Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Internet
  • Option
  • Accept

• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Me

• Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Running
  • Doing

• The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper

  

  Harold Wilson

• While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Book

• The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Trying
  • Fame
  • Quit

• If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

  

  Geoff Dyer

• 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