Errol Morris Quotes
Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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I claim the right not to incriminate myself.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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I really like the resurgence of the '90s vibe, and you can't go wrong with a Canadian Tuxedo. I never think it's bad to layer denim, whether it's colors or shapes.
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I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Seven scores, seven scores, seven hundreds of saints, And seven thousands and seven ten scores, November a number implored, Though martyrs good they came.
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There is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled,'My Idea of Religion,' or 'My Idea of God.' An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.
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Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
