There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
Errol MorrisPhilip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."
Errol MorrisBut there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol MorrisThe proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol MorrisDid you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?
Errol Morris