Errol Morris Quotes
It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I don't feel famous.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
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It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
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It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.
