Errol Morris Quotes
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I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what Donald Trump does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.