Top 44 Quotes by Errol Morris

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

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

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

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

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

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

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

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

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

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?