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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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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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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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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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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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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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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As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
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How many people you know who can name every serial killer who ever existed in a row?
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I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
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I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.
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I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
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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.
