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
I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.
became block four good
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
language ends used
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade...
crazy talking levels
When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
language falsity concern
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
drama knowing documentaries
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
thinking facts offensive
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.
drama real sides
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
drama documentaries periods
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
writing thinking documentaries
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.
confused real thinking
Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.
lying twenties four
Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.
television may interviews
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
thinking done exclusion
I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.