Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."
Errol MorrisThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol MorrisI believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinรฉma vรฉritรฉ.
Errol MorrisI never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.
Errol Morris