film director
Cineasta e escritor americano (nascido em 1948)
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Join the roomErrol Mark Morris é um diretor de cinema americano conhecido por documentários que interrogam a epistemologia de seus sujeitos. Em 2003, seu The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Documentário de Longa-Metragem. Seu filme The Thin Blue Line ficou em quinto lugar em uma enquete da Sight & Sound dos maiores documentários já feitos. Morris é conhecido por fazer filmes sobre assuntos incomuns; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control entrelaça as histórias de um adestrador de animais, um jardineiro de topiaria, um cientista de robôs e um especialista em rato-toupeira pelado. Morris inventou o Interrotron, uma configuração de câmera idiossincrática que permite que um sujeito de entrevista olhe diretamente para o rosto do entrevistador enquanto também olha diretamente para a câmera.
“The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.”
“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
