Errol Morris Quotes
The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
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Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based environment for public debate in South Africa.
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I'm a folk artist at heart.
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It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.
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Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.
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I don't chase money, money chase me!
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I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity-he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.
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The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.
