Errol Morris Quotes

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick to the truth. You cannot just say that I will change the climax because I do not like it.

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I'm someone who likes to try new things and take on new challenges. I love making movies, but TV is also great. I really enjoy doing both.

Literature invents its own rules.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Cinema is diversifying; there's room for every kind of cinema today.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

That's what happens in feature docs. The more time you spend, the more nuance emerges, the more a story evolves - but it's different than fiction, where you can reshoot something.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.