Errol Morris Quotes
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
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Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.
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I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
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To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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I'm not a betting man.
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And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Viet Nam.
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
