Errol's Quotes

#1. A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?

Patrick W. Carr

#2. People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

Errol Morris

#3. I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Errol Flynn

#4. I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

Errol Morris

#5. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

Wendy Williams

#6. The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

Errol Flynn

#7. The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Errol Morris

#8. The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,

Errol White

#9. The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

Errol Flynn

#10. ..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the immense satisfaction the feelings are providing.

Errol R. Fish

#11. There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

Errol Morris

#12. How's that? Do I look like Errol Flynn?" "You are a dashing motherfucker," she told him. She

Joe Hill

#13. 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

#14. Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

Errol Morris

#15. My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

Errol Flynn

#16. 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

#17. He pulled his hand back, aware now that sweat beaded on his forehead and that Rale watched him, his eyes dark, intense. Errol licked his lips. Did he want a drink? He hadn't gone more than two days in a row without a drink since he was ... since ... Warrel ... the quarry ... stone.

Patrick W. Carr

#18. 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

#19. I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Errol Morris

#20. I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

Errol Morris

#21. I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Errol Flynn

#22. 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

#23. You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

Errol Morris

#24. If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

Errol Morris

#25. I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

Errol Flynn

#26. You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

Errol Flynn

#27. I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

Mark Kaylor

#28. I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

Errol Flynn

#29. The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

Errol Morris

#30. Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Errol Morris

#31. There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

Errol Morris

#32. There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

Errol Morris

#33. From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you - I know FUCK ALL!

David Niven

#34. My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Errol Morris

#35. 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

#36. 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.'

Errol Morris

#37. First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Errol Morris

#38. Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

Errol Flynn

#39. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

Maria Thayer

#40. In those days the typical Hollywood mother ran around looking like Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a hat with a feather in it to attract attention. I never wore a hat and I never looked like Eleanor Roosevelt.

Florence Aadland

#41. I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.

Bobby Fischer

#42. Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ...

Errol Morris

#43. To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.

Ty Warner

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

Errol Morris

#45. 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.

Errol Morris

#46. You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

Errol Morris

#47. Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Errol Morris

#48. Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

Errol Morris

#49. A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

Errol Morris

#50. God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."

Errol Morris

#51. Treat reluctance like seasickness," Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. "If you feel it, focus on the horizon.

Daniel Handler

#52. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

Errol Morris

#53. 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

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

Errol Morris

#55. I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

John Logan

#56. I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

Errol Morris

#57. They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

Errol Morris

#58. It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Errol Flynn

#59. Has every oyster a different taste?

Errol Flynn

#60. My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

#61. When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.

Errol Morris

#62. By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars.

Errol Coder

#63. I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

Errol Flynn

#64. I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

Daniel Handler

#65. I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

Errol Morris

#66. 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

#67. A lot of people ... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like ... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington ... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Walter Mosley

#68. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Errol Morris

#69. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

Humphrey Bogart

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

Errol Morris

#71. My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Errol Morris

#72. Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

Errol Morris

#73. I like my whisky old and my women young.

Errol Flynn

#74. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

David James Elliott

#75. I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Errol Flynn

#76. What is it that angers us? ... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

Errol Morris

#77. I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

Errol White

#78. War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is a difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

Errol Morris

#79. 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

#80. I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

Errol Morris

#81. Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

Errol Flynn

#82. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

Errol Morris

#83. 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.

Errol Morris

#84. Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Jeannie Walker

#85. Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Errol Morris

#86. My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Errol Flynn

#87. Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Errol Morris

#88. There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

Errol Flynn

#89. 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

#90. In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Jack Paar

#91. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Errol Morris

#92. I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.

Errol Morris

#93. I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

Errol Morris

#94. It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Errol Flynn

#95. Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

Errol Morris

#96. Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Errol Flynn

#97. I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

Orlando Bloom

#98. One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

Errol Morris

#99. I 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

#100. 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