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Errol Morris Quotes

American - Director | February 5, 1948 -

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

Myself People Crazy Problem Person

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

Great Me You Filmmaking Things

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

Exercise You Want Hearing Interest

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

World Understanding Errors Route Our

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.

Me Story Camera You I Can Know

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?

Think You Know Why Will Interview

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

Past Remember Without Repeat Sense

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Absurdity Confrontation Ecstatic

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

Everything Planned Would Equally

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

You Phone Phone Call Person Sitting

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

People Start Always Interviewing

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.

Time Amazing You Things Rule Film

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