Errol Morris Quotes
Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
