Errol Morris

Talking Pictures

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4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Legendary documentarian and filmmaker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, The Pigeon Tunnel) and host Ben Mankiewicz have a charged conversation about interviewing, serial killers, grave robbing and, yes, movies. Morris gives the longest, most original (and most surprising!) answer to our Super 8 question about movie props. Plus, he reveals the movie that changed his life. Films Mentioned: The Fog of War The Thin Blue Line American Dharma The Unknown Known Psycho The Pigeon Tunnel Gates of Heaven Vernon, Florida Conan the Barbarian Creature From The Black Lagoon This Island Earth Tarnished Angels Imitation of Life Les Enfants du Paradis Au Hasard Balthazar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But the assumption is that it's all in control.
0:03.0	My assumption, it's all out of control.
0:05.0	I have no idea where an interview is going to go.
0:08.0	Take this case.
0:10.0	Do I know what you're going to say next or what I'm going to say next?
0:14.0	No, I don't.
0:15.0	And that's okay. I think that's good.
0:21.1	Hey, it's Ben Mankowitz.
0:23.1	I have a personal pantheon of great interviewers,
0:27.3	people who elicit something authentic from their subjects.
0:31.3	Howard Stern gets his guests to relax to be themselves.
0:35.8	Dan Patrick asks quick, thoughtful questions.
0:39.5	David Letterman regularly got to the core of what was important,
0:43.7	asking exactly what was on my mind.
0:47.5	My brother Josh Mankewitz of Dateline is an elite interviewer,
0:51.7	equal parts sympathetic and ferocious. The antagonistic part of the job
0:57.2	has never been a strength for me. Other good ones spring to mind, Terry Gross, Dick Cavett,
1:04.0	Tavis Smiley, Werner Herzog, and then there's the man you heard in that clip, Errol Morris.
1:12.4	Morris's interviews are the source material for his groundbreaking documentaries.
1:17.9	He is one of the defining documentarians of all time.
1:22.1	He won an Oscar for his 2003 doc, The Fog of War,
1:26.2	where he interviewed Robert McNamara, the American Secretary of
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