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
anxieties endless enormous putting
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.
amazing remake time
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.
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I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
hearing simply
Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.
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A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
balanced eternal meant normal somehow
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.
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Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.
insane world facts
The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
confrontation absurdity ecstatic
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
differences stories bigs
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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.
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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.