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My Golden Rules: Errol Morris
The Five Commandments of Cinema
Photo by Nubar Alexanian © 2011
1. If you know the answer to a question, why bother asking it?
2. Shoot others as you would have them shoot you.
3. Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious.
4. Look for the unknown in the familiar.
5. Truth is not guaranteed by style.
In his groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed documentaries, world-renowned moviemaker
Errol Morris has tackled a diverse slate of topics that includes pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), the torture of suspected terrorists at Abu Ghraib (Standard Operating Procedure), Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (the Academy Award-winning The Fog of War) and tabloid journalism (Tabloid). Morris’ game-changing 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, used dramatic re-enactments and Morris’ experience as a private detective to investigate the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted of and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. (Adams was exonerated and released from prison in 1989.) In his recently-released book Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, Morris turns his eye toward how—or even if—photographs can reveal the truth of the subjects they capture. The book was released by Penguin Press on September 1, 2011. MM
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This story was published in the Guide to Making Movies 2011 MovieMaker Magazine. The headline was:
My Golden Rules: Errol Morris / The Five Commandments of Cinema
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