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

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• 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

• Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Earth

• A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Fun
  • Parents
  • Tired

• My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

  

  Brion James
  • Done
  • Job
  • Fool

• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • Idea
  • Torture

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

  

  Errol Morris
  • Drama
  • Invent
  • Netflix