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.

Errol Morris

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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• 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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Different
  • Power
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Myself

• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Listening

• I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Lifestyle

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I actually would have not been involved if it wasn't the four of us because it wouldn't have been no point, ... It was either going to happen with the four of us or it just wasn't going to happen at all.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Happen
  • Involved
  • No Point

• The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

  

  Harry Seidler
  • Space
  • Government
  • Playgrounds

• If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... then it will go the House of Representatives.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • College
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton

• I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Important
  • Film
  • Working

• You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Film
  • Drama
  • Produced