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
believe conveyed full truth
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
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.
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.'
people ways
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
believe less minutes people realized ten
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.
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.
sit taught
I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.