Errol Morris

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. ”

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ”

I think calling someone a character is a compliment. ”

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along. ”

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. ”

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. ”

When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical. ”

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

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience. ”