Errol Morris

Also known as Errol Mark Morris

American filmmaker and writer (born 1948)

Person · Open Library

Works: 14

Top works

Standard Operating Procedure
The act of killing
The fog of war
The thin blue line
Rosamond Purcell

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1970-05-25

composersoundtrackvideo game music

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 388
Total plays: 911

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,797x
AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 22,568x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
· 2018 · cited 15,411x
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
· 1965 · cited 15,165x

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Quotes

“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 like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.”
“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.”
“Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Really? Human nature being what it is, isn't it hopeless to expect that we can do better regardless of whether we remember anything or not? And what if what we remember leads us to false analogies and misunderstandings? I prefer: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility." Or how about this: "Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it."”
“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.”