Errol Morris Quotes

Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!

Errol Morris

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Art
  • History
  • Light

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Words
  • Couple

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Bold

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• 'It was an old passion,' he said. 'I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.''What is it like?' she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. 'An amputation,' he whispered.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She
  • Passion

• The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • True
  • Literature

• I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.

  

  Eminem
  • Show
  • Autographs
  • Signing

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Pain
  • Regret

• The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Great

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Truth
  • Today

• Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Reflection
  • Issues