Errol Morris
Errol Morris
Errol Mark Morrisis an American film director. In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 February 1948
CityHewlett, NY
CountryUnited States of America
miscarriage light dna
Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.
movie stories tabloids
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
dream reality demand
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
ideas people facts
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
ideas people interviews
One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.
horse elements cows
You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.
littles way connections
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
film concerned
My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
emerges ends
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.
properly
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
happen yellow
We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.
written
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.
equally
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
finding obsession truth
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.