{"id":2203,"date":"2006-02-22T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2006-02-22T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:51:18","slug":"an_interview_wi_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Errol Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Cunningham interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/biography.html\">UW Grad<\/a> and noted film and advertising impresario Errol Morris [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/motiondesign\/content\/en\/Dialog_Box\/Errol_Morris\/Errol_Morris.pdf\">pdf<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Within the entertainment industry, Errol Morris holds a chameleon position. To the commercial production world, he&rsquo;s established as a highly successful director, both innovative and intelligent. (He&rsquo;s one of the only, if not the only, director of TV commercials who has written an opinion-page article published in The New York Times.) Within talent and advertising agencies, he is known for his exceptional off-kilter vision, and honored in ways usually reserved for noncommercial artists. (In November 1999, his work received a full retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2002, the organizers of the Academy Awards asked him to direct the short film that introduced the annual Oscars ceremony; it featured a series of real-life  characters&mdash;some well-known, some everyday citizens&mdash;describing their passion for<br \/>\nmovies.) In a 2004 Adweek article honoring Morris&rsquo;s contributions as someone who &ldquo;rises above the fray to create work that resonates and inspires,&rdquo; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/\">Errol Morris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Cunningham interviews UW Grad and noted film and advertising impresario Errol Morris [pdf]: Within the entertainment industry, Errol Morris holds a chameleon position. To the commercial production world, he&rsquo;s established as a highly successful director, both innovative and intelligent. (He&rsquo;s one of the only, if not the only, director of TV commercials who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,32,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}