147 Quotes by Errol Morris

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

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.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

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

I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.