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
commercial money statement work
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.
You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.
certain great perceived seen
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.
asked decided eat gates heaven human order potential realize somebody
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.
amazing remake time
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.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
anxieties endless enormous putting
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.
finding obsession truth
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.
equally
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
despite efforts
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
written
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.
per tabloid
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.
describe however journalist pursuit truth
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.
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.