Errol Morris Quotes

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller.

I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.