Errol Morris Quotes

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

People like scandals.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.

So many in the press turn gossip into gasoline and keep pouring it on the fire.

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

I don't wanna be in a show that's salacious just for the sake of getting viewers.

Tell-all books are boring.

TMZ is so disgusting.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.

The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all.

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.