"A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come…" — Errol Morris

"A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories."

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This reflection on wisdom by Errol Morris resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in wisdom is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects. In 2003, his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of an animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist, and a naked mole-rat specialist. Morris invented the Interrotron, an idiosyncratic camera set up that allows an interview subject to look directly at the interviewer’s face while also looking straight at the camera.

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