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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Conscience is God present in man.
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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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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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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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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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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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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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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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Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.
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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.
