Errol Morris Quotes
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
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Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
