Errol Morris
Director
1948-02-05
Books by Errol Morris
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Standard Operating Procedure
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A wilderness of error
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The ashtray (or the man who denied reality)
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Quotes by Errol Morris
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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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A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
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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.
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I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
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I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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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.
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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.'
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If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.
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