147 Quotes by Errol Morris

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.

Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is.

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

Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it’s a property of language.

I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I’m more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I’m actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.