Errol's Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Errol's Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.— 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.'— Errol Morris
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.— David Niven
Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.— Errol Morris
The other dragons craned over the pen walls, watching him cautiously. There was another distant gastric roar. Errol shifted painfully. The dragons exchanged glances. Then, one by one, they lay down carefully on the floor and put their paws over their eyes.— Terry Pratchett
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.— Errol Flynn
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
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
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
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
Gonzo stares after the Rolls-Royce. He has heroismus interruptus. He was ready, right then, to coordinate four or five hundred terrified civvies, lay down his life, kill for them, make a legend of disinterested soldiering. It's not that he resents what has happened, but he's having trouble changing gear. He was expecting to take charge. Instead he is struggling to keep up with a sexagenarian Mystery Man with an Errol Flynn grin who commands a legion of pirate-monk rally drivers and sweeps formidable older women from their feet in a could of cologne and Asian-Monarchic style.— Nick Harkaway
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
As the day progressed, it became evident that I would eat better on this period of punishment from Mott than I'd eaten yet since coming to Farthenwood.— Jennifer A. Nielsen
Tobias snuck me back better than half of his breakfast, and Errol left some food in my room while cleaning up, expressing false dismay after I ate it that "it was food intended for somebody else."
We were to remain in our room in private study because of Princess Amarinda being in the house, but after lunch was brought to us, Tobias gave me all of his lunch and Roden shared half.
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
In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.— Jack Paar
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
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.— Errol Morris
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.— Errol Morris
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
I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.— 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
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
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.— Errol Morris
I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.— Maria Thayer
I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.— Olivia De Havilland
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.— Errol Morris
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.— Errol Morris
I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.— Errol Morris
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.— John Logan
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!— Errol Morris
Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.— Errol Morris
Is that a Sneakoscope?" said Hermione interestedly, standing up for a better look. "Yeah ... mind you, it's a very cheap one," Ron said. "It went haywire just as I was tying it to Errol's leg to send it to Harry." "Were you doing anything untrustworthy at the time?" said Hermione shrewdly. "No! Well ... I wasn't supposed to be using Errol. You know he's not really up to long journeys ... but how else was I supposed to get Harry's present to him?— J.K. Rowling
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.— Errol Flynn
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
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
We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.— Errol Morris
I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.— Mark Kaylor
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.— Errol Morris
I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.— Errol Flynn
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.— Errol Morris
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.— Errol Flynn
I like my whisky old and my women young.— Errol Flynn
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
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
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.— Errol Flynn
Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.— Malcolm Rifkind
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.— Errol Morris
I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.— Errol Flynn
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.— Errol Morris
Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know— Gregory Isaacs
Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.— Errol Morris
They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.— Errol Flynn
I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.— Errol Flynn
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
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
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
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
People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.— Errol Morris
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense— Errol Flynn
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.— Errol Morris
In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.— Stephen Lang
It was inevitable that Flynn would notice her. It wasn't her figure that attracted him, because Beverly is a small-bosomed girl. It was her legs, of course - her long legs in those black net stockings. Later, when Errol and I became good friends, he told me why: "I'm not a breast man," he said. "I'm a leg man. You can't make love to a breast.— Florence Aadland
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
The Glasgow kirk in 1583 ordered excommunication for those who kept Christmas, and in 1593 the minister at Errol equated carol singing with fornication. The commission of such sins at Christmas need not even have been public. In a number of Scottish towns ministers were known to go door-to-door on Christmas Day to ensure that families were not feasting.— Gerry Bowler
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
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.— Errol Flynn
Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.— Errol Morris
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
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.— Errol Morris
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
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
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.— Errol Morris
Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.— Errol Morris
Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.— Humphrey Bogart
Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.— Jeannie Walker
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.— Errol Morris
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.— Errol Barrow
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.— Errol Flynn
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
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
I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.— Daniel Handler
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
Once Errol righted himself into some semblance of horsemanship, they set off at an easy canter. That is, the other horses set off at a canter, while Errol's horse settled into a teeth-shattering trot. After a hundred paces he could feel Horace's backbone through the saddle. The other riders pulled ahead without a backward glance, leaving him to his four-footed torture.— Patrick W. Carr
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.— Errol Flynn
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.— Errol Morris
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.— Errol Morris
Where do you think they've gone?' he said.— Terry Pratchett
'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.
'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.'
'Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.'
'But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?'
Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile.
'Most people seem to manage,' she said.
She reached across the table and touched his hand.
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
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
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
How's that? Do I look like Errol Flynn?" "You are a dashing motherfucker," she told him. She— Joe Hill
As I've stated before, there is no truth to the stories that Errol and Beverly spent two years of debauchery together. Their life was nothing like that. But it's easy to understand how stories of debauchery grew up around a man like Errol. Let me present an example. Once, while we were in New York, Errol and Beverly attended a party at a country estate. At the party were two other couples. They were all very good friends. During the course of the evening they went swimming. In the nude. Now to someone who wasn't there that party had all the marks of an orgy. But it wasn't like that a bit. Beverly later told me all about it. Errol, Beverly and his wealthy friends simply went swimming in the pool for a few minutes. And that was all there was to it. Nothing else happened. They weren't riotously drunk or mad with passion. It was an unconventional but casual swim. Afterward they got out, dressed and enjoyed some porkchops and applesauce together.— Florence Aadland
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
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.— David James Elliott
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
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
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People— Errol Morris
She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.— Kate Pullinger
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
