Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do." Errol Morris More Quotes by Errol Morris More Quotes From Errol Morris Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant. Errol Morris miscarriage dna light You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced. Errol Morris documentaries knowing drama There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side. Errol Morris real stories drama 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. Errol Morris documentaries periods drama 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. Errol Morris finishing writing thinking 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. Errol Morris confused real thinking Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second. Errol Morris four twenties lying I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker. Errol Morris being-true film thinking Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence. Errol Morris interviews may television 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. Errol Morris archives historical people 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. Errol Morris offensive facts thinking 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. Errol Morris exclusion done thinking 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. Errol Morris connections littles way When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme. Errol Morris levels crazy talking My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so. Errol Morris concerned film I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité. Errol Morris two believe ideas Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view. Errol Morris revenge hurt book Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial? Errol Morris dachau allies interesting 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." Errol Morris navy eye men I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore. Errol Morris envy different writing
