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If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

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

Errol Morris

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

Errol Morris

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

Errol Morris

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.

Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

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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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My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

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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 people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

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There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

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We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

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

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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Errol Morris

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

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I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.

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When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.

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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

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I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

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I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

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I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.

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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.

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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

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First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

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If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

Errol Morris