Errol Morris Quotes

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Water
  • Cool

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Together
  • Young
  • Rich

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Gone
  • Front

• I don't plan my roles or my films.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Roles
  • Films
  • Plan

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Election
  • Advance
  • Auction

• That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Question
  • Group
  • Within

• Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Success
  • Mistake
  • Failure

• I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Light
  • Die

• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Trying

• This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

  

  Jalal Talabani

• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Different
  • Action

• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • Real
  • War

• I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Friends
  • Sympathy

• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Release

• That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Movie
  • Airplane

• My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Interviews