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 didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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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 hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
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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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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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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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I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.
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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.
