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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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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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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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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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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Security services, from Afghanistan to the United States, should be alert throughout the Ramadan period, but especially on the 27th day of the holy month.
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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.
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The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
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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!
