147 Quotes by Errol Morris

God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. “Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder.”

Mike Wallace’s interviews may make great television, but they don’t produce great evidence.

Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the confrontation with meaninglessness.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn’t stop short of insanity.

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we’re going down a rabbit hole once again – and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I’ve done some damn good here!

Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick’s definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, “Does Adi want revenge?” – they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick’s formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.

I’ve never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don’t.

There’s this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.