Errol Morris Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.”

“First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.”

“I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.”

“Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.”

“But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.”

“Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.”

“If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.”

“When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.”

“If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.”

“Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.”