Quotes by Errol Morris

Errol Morris

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she’s well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

Boston

Portraits

Wife

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We’re deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

Confused

Drama

Two

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Movie

Stories

Tabloids

All alone – shorn of context, without captions – a photograph is neither true nor false…. For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

Caption

Language

World

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

Might

Phones

Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford – a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?

Allies

Dachau

Interesting

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Absurdity

Confrontation

Ecstatic

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Brain

Gray Matter

Mind

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump’s]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It’s just too demoralizing and unsettling.

America

Trump

Want

I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don’t want to go there. But it’s amazing.

Careers

Citizens

New York

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Quotes by Errol Morris

Errol Morris

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she’s well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We’re deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

All alone – shorn of context, without captions – a photograph is neither true nor false…. For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

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

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump’s]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It’s just too demoralizing and unsettling.

I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don’t want to go there. But it’s amazing.

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