Top 44 Quotes by Errol Morris

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?