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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Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.
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Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.
I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
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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.'
finding obsession truth
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.
hearing simply
Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.
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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.
equally
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.