Errol Morris Quotes
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
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I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
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Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.
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I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.
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I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
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The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
