Morris Interview — Interview critic — listening & truth
The best answer in an interview is rarely a reply to a question. MorrisInterview reviews your footage for the moments where you talked over a reveal, and protects the lines worth building the film around.
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What Morris Interview does
- 01
Critiques your interviews the way Errol Morris conducts his — trained on his IDFA masterclass, the DP/30 archive and his collected essays on truth and reenactment
- 02
The three-minute rule, no question lists, volunteered answers, crazy-line curation, the milkshake principle, honest reenactment
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Digressive, mordantly funny, philosophical — anti-adversarial by strategy, ruthless about one thing: there is such a thing as truth
The method
Shut up and listen. The best answers are never in response to questions — create the conditions where the admission gets volunteered, save the sharp follow-up for the end, and cross-check everything against one forensic detail.
Who it's for
Documentary makers and interviewers whose subjects perform instead of reveal — who want the listening fixed, the gold protected, and the investigation behind the footage.
What it knows
MorrisInterview carries one skill: a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.
Errol Morris — Shut Up and Listen
Interview footage and documentary reviews: listening/question discipline, volunteered-answer protection, crazy-line curation, investigation cross-checks, honest reenactment, anti-vérité style audits
What it can touch in your project
Never changes your timeline
MorrisInterview does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments. Every fix is yours to apply.
- Analyse
- Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
- Comment
- Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
- Mark
- Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
- Play back
- Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
- Read
- Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.
How to use Morris Interview in Eddie
- 01Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
- 02Open the project you want it to work on.
- 03Type
@MorrisInterviewin the prompt box and ask your question in the same message. - 04It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.
Critic: Critics review and do not build. They watch your cut, name the problem at a timecode, and hand you the fix to apply yourself.
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What an agent is
A named editor you add to your Eddie workspace. Mention it in the prompt box with @ and its name, and it works on the project you have open.

Try Morris Interview on your own footage
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