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
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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.
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.
writing talking people
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
ideas people interviews
One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.
people historical archives
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
ideas people facts
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
real feet people
People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake... You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
thinking people way
People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.
people doe guarantees
The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
self people deception
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
people listening important
Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
people interviews stuff
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
strong mean people
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People