147 Quotes by Errol Morris

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

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!

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.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

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