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

• I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Audience

• 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
  • Films
  • Roles
  • 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

• I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

  

  Kerry Washington
  • American
  • Help
  • College

• What happens traditionally in a campaign is they will go out to their list once or twice a week to raise money from their fund-raisers, but when a candidate gets to a general election, you get some donor fatigue because they've already maxed out their campaign to give.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Money

• It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Jesus

• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • God
  • Movie
  • Easy

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

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Interviews