The 131+ Errol Morris Quotes

I Used To Work As A Private Detective Years And Years Ago. And My Boss Gave Me This One Very Simple Piece Of Advice About Trying To Figure Out Who To Interview First In Any Investigation. His Recommendation: Always Pick The People Who Were Fired. Pick The People Who Are Pissed Off.

In The Case Of The Thin Blue Line, I Was Surprised Actually By Many Things. I Was Shooting Down In Texas Where The Actual Killer David Harris Lived And I Interviewed The Town Cop. He Described These Guys As Being David Harris' Partners In Crime And Even Though They Had Criminal Records And Had Committed Crimes, They Sued Me! More Often Than Not, The Insurance Company That Protects You Against This Type Of Lawsuit Will Settle It With Cash And Contest It In A Court Of Law.

I Asked [donald Trump] If He Had Any Advice For Charles Foster Kane And He Said, "yeah, Get Yourself A Different Woman."

I've Been Involved In Doing Advertising For Various Elections And I Just Couldn't See Doing Anti-trump Advertising In This Election. My Line Has Been, "how Could You Do Anything Worse That What He Does Himself?".

You Know, Anything More Negative, Anything More Disparaging, Anything More Adversarial Than What [donald Trump] Does Already. The Mystery Is How He's Gotten As Far As He's Gotten.

The Smarter People I Know Declined To Watch The Most Recent Debate [with Donald Trump].

I Actually Felt Diminished By Watching [donald Trump's]. If This Is What Discourse Has Become In America, Who Even Wants To Know About It? It's Just Too Demoralizing And Unsettling.

Not Suing Others Does Not Mean That Others Won't Sue You.if People Are Desperate Enough To Think That They Can Gain Some Kind Of Financial Advantage, They'll Sue.

I Used To Live In New York City, Then When My Son Was Two Years Old We Moved To Cambridge Massachusetts And We've Been There Ever Since. My Son Is Now Twenty-nine Years Old, So We've Been Up There For A While.

Robert Nozick [a Havard Philosopher, Famous For His Book "anarchy, State And Utopia"] Defined Revenge As Delivering The Message That You Know What Someone Has Done, And It Doesn't Involve Hurting Them Or Doing Anything To Them Beyond That. It's Just Delivering The Message That Their Crime Has Been Noted Not Just By Its Victims, Because The Victim Might Be Dead, But By Another Who Has A Different Moral View And Will Challenge The Perpetrator's View.

I'm One Simple Way I Think I've Succeeded Was Capturing Elsa [dorfman]. There's Something About Elsa, Her Personality, And Her Work That I Believe Is There.

Simply Coming To The Perpetrator And Delivering The Message Is Nozick's Definition Of Revenge. And In That Sense, Adi Is Exacting Revenge. When People Ask, "does Adi Want Revenge?" - They Mean Violent Revenge. But In Nozick's Formulation, It Is Revenge. That Is The Essence Of Revenge.