The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory." Errol Morris More Quotes by Errol Morris More Quotes From Errol Morris Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain. Errol Morris gray-matter mind brain I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell. Errol Morris taken guarantees thinking This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there. Errol Morris cameras different years Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it. Errol Morris remember order past I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control. Errol Morris one-day powerful real We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know. Errol Morris support world thinking There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges. Errol Morris crazy light thinking Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it? Errol Morris killers passion real 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. Errol Morris real feet people There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.) Errol Morris one-direction zero color 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! Errol Morris country years thinking We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste. Errol Morris imagine taste might Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. Errol Morris photograph belief way I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner. Errol Morris long-ago hero opportunity The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable. Errol Morris insane facts world I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations. Errol Morris conversation thinking All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world. Errol Morris caption language world Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious. Errol Morris obvious Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. Errol Morris ecstatic confrontation absurdity In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new? Errol Morris netflix why-not drama
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