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.
sit taught
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.
fascinated stories tabloid york
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.
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.
gray-matter brain mind
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.
world language photograph
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
years years-ago detectives
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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.
self people deception
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
lonely existence
Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.