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Errol Morris Biography

Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. He is perhaps best known for his 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line, commonly cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. In 2003, his documentary 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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Insinuates, Interviewing, Interviews, People, Stuff

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit.

Clear, Fame, Merit, Pretty

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Consuming, Know, Knows, Lately, Mean, Terribly

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist
anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

Citizens, Interesting, Misogynistic, Misses, Missing, Point

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

Given, Keeps, Moving, Taken, World

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

Fiction, Like, Stories, Think, Thinking, Ways

I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

Advertising, Doe, Election, Involved, Lines, Worse

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

Believe, Dorfman, Simple, Thinking, Way, Work

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Filmmaking, Killers, Long, Talking, Thought

What is it that angers us?. . . We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

Angers, Essence, Lied, Manipulated, Photograph, Problem

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you. If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

Mean, People, Suing, Thinking

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

Blue, Case, Law, Partners, Texas, Town

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

Conversation, Conversations, Emerges, Like, Think, Thinking

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

Ends, Excuse, Excuses, Explanation, Explanations, Wondered

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Concern, Concerns, Falsity, Language, Truth

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary. "

Diverse, Filmmaking, Genre, Things, Umbrella

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.

Endlessly, Facts, Like, Offensive, Thinking, Torture

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

Believe, Claim, Meaning, Thinking, True, True Or False

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

Guarantees, Kinds, Saying, Taken, Thinking

The way I go about making a movie. . . even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

Feeling, Feelings, Making, My Way, Ones, Way

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