Errol Morris People Quotations

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

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.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake... You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

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

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.