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
interest avoiding vested-interests
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
reality world different
The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
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.
writing talking people
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
language falsity concern
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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.
television may interviews
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
confused real thinking
Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.
writing thinking documentaries
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.
drama documentaries periods
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
drama real sides
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
talking silence listening
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
drama knowing documentaries
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.