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
claims films includes neither nor
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.
sit taught
I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
equally
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
despite efforts
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than 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.
per tabloid
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.
describe however journalist pursuit truth
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
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.
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?
shut
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.
came criticized dedicated people seems thin truth using
When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.
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.
I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
diverse great license seems
What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'