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.
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.
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.'
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.
confrontation absurdity ecstatic
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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.
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.
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?
finding obsession truth
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.