Errol Morris Quotes About Listening

Quotes about: Listening

• 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

  People, Listening, Important

  "Predilections". Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 6, 1989.

• 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.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

  "The Eleven-Minute Psychiatrist". Interview with James Hughes, Stop Smiling Magazine, www.errolmorris.com. March 2006.

• 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

  Talking, Silence, Listening

  Source: www.believermag.com

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