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

~Errol Morris

Topics: Am Any Crazy Crazy People Crazy Person Had Like Myself Never People Person Problem

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

~Errol Morris

Topics: About Errors Examination Our Proper Route Understanding World

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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

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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.

~Errol Morris

Topics: About Along Camera Documentary Emerges Ends Fact Go How Interests Investigating Know Me Say Story You I Can

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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.'

~Errol Morris

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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

Topics: Considered Interview Investigation Know Otherwise Properly Should Think Why Will Yield You I Think

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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.

~Errol Morris

Topics: Describe However Journalist Level Part Proud Pursuit Some Think Truth Want You I Think

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

~Errol Morris

Topics: Cannot Condemned Futility Ironic Past Remember Repeat Sense Those Who Without

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

~Errol Morris

Topics: Dreadful Equally Everything Planned Would

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

~Errol Morris

Topics: Between Big Big Difference Difference Making Making Up Reporting Say Simply Story Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 5th, 1948

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