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Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways. — Errol Morris

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

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable. — Errol Morris

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second. — Errol Morris

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie. — Errol Morris

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

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all? — Errol Morris

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. — Errol Morris

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing. — Errol Morris

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence. — Errol Morris

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. — Errol Morris

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence. — Errol Morris

I think calling someone a character is a compliment. — Errol Morris

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. — Errol Morris

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't. — Errol Morris

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

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. — Errol Morris

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ... — Errol Morris

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker. — Errol Morris

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

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary. — Errol Morris

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

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. — Errol Morris

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

I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes. — Maria Thayer

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

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. — Errol Morris

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking? — Errol Morris

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side. — Errol Morris

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. — Errol Morris

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.) — Errol Morris

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore. — Errol Morris

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

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. — Errol Morris

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us. — Errol Morris

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. — Errol Morris

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

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing. — Errol Morris

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

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. — Errol Morris

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. — Errol Morris

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

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges. — Errol Morris

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it. — Errol Morris

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say. — Errol Morris

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

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious. — Errol Morris

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. — Errol Morris

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.' — Errol Morris

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious. — Errol Morris

Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly. — Errol Morris

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

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable. — Errol Morris

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris

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

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy. — Errol Morris

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. — Errol Morris

Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do. — Errol Morris

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim. — Errol Morris