Errol Morris Quotes

In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?

Errol Morris

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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Win

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Home
  • Car

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Society
  • Mistakes

• Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • People
  • Good
  • Religion

• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Laughing

• If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Way
  • Rich
  • Button

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • God
  • Write
  • Wrote

• You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Professional
  • Wrestling

• The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Church

• Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Remember
  • Religious

• I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • School
  • Business
  • Friends

• The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we have all the elements of a drama, both political and personal at the same time. The decors and the costumes are all based on real photos - I wanted to be as close to reality as possible. Nicola Piovani's theatrical music gives a distance that's almost Chaplinesque, there's something quite funny. There's no imitation, no caricature, no parodie - it's realism with a distance where the dialogues are often quite funny.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Reality
  • Film
  • Drama

• A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Today
  • Taken

• In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?

  

  Errol Morris
  • Drama
  • Invent
  • Netflix