Errol Morris Quotes

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in a universal way.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

But I guess as long as I'm here, we might as well talk a little politics.

Art is not something to decorate a wall. Art is a political weapon.

One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer answers to specific political questions. Instead, it looks beyond them.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

It's hard not to be political.

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new generation like 'Ho Mann Jahaan,' which is a film I did of the youth of Pakistan.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

Our country's social revolution lends itself to jokes and I use them.

I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.