Quotes from Errol Morris

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

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.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.