Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.

- Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

- Errol Morris

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

- Errol Morris

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.

- Errol Morris

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

- Errol Morris

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

- Errol Morris

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.

- Errol Morris

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

- Errol Morris

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

- Errol Morris

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

- Errol Morris

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

- Errol Morris

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

- Errol Morris

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

- Errol Morris

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

- Errol Morris

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.

- Errol Morris

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

- Errol Morris

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

- Errol Morris

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

- Errol Morris

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

- Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

- Errol Morris