Errol Morris Quotes

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

No, I never planned my life.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

Play is experimenting with chance.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.