147 Quotes by Errol Morris

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

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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