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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I didn't make Gates of Heaven so that Werner Herzog would have to eat his shoe. It's not as if I decided to realize my potential as a human being in order to get somebody to ingest something distasteful. I specifically asked Werner not to eat his shoe.
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.
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.
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.
reality world different
The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
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.
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.
real believe challenges
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.
powerful real one-day
I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
commercial money statement work
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.
certain great perceived seen
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.
amazing remake time
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.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.