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44 quotes by Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best active directors. 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.
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

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I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

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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... →

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

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Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

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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... →

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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if... →

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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

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Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

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A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie.... →

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