Episode 367: Errol Morris

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5:01 p.m.

Errol Morris is the director of The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. His latest film is American Dharma.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t make films because it makes sense to make them. Probably if I thought carefully about whether they made sense, I would stop immediately. I make them because I have a need to do it. I have a need to think about stuff. Writing and filmmaking for me is a form of thinking. It\u2019s an opportunity to think about something. And I enjoy it. I don\u2019t know what I would do without filmmaking.\u201d\n\n\nThanks to Mailchimp, Pitt Writers and SAIC.\n\n\n\n\n@errolmorris\n\n\nerrolmorris.com\n\n\n[05:37] American Dharma (2019)\n\n\n[11:30] The Fog of War (2003)\n\n\n[11:43] Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred. A Leutcher, Jr. (1999)\n\n\n[19:55] The Unknown Known (2013)\n\n\n[20:49] Twelve O'Clock High (1949)\n\n\n[23:31] The Searchers (1956)\n\n\n[37:38] The Thin Blue Line (1988)\n\n\n[38:13] Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)\n\n\n[39:46] Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising (Penguin \u2022 2017)\n\n\n[39:56] Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Henry Holt and Co. \u2022 2018)\n\n\n[41:59] \u201cPredilections\u201d (New Yorker \u2022 1988)\n\n\n[42:03] \u201cThe Friendly Executioner\u201d (New Yorker \u2022 1999)\n\n\n[44:01] Gates of Heaven (1978)\n\n\n[41:59] \u201cBlood Spore\u201d (Harper's \u2022 2013)\n\n\n[46:24] Hamilton's Pharmacopeia Docuseries (Viceland \u2022 2016)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices