Morris said it took years for The Pigeon Tunnel to be completed.
The controversial figure who guided American foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford administrations recently reached the century mark.
And as my wife has pointed out, we talked on the phone for over an hour.
Director Errol Morris at a Q&A for ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ at the 50th Telluride Film FestivalPhoto by Paul Best/Getty Images for ABA
He got cold feet.
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Morris added, I thought I was being perfectly nice.
Did not want to be interviewed by me.
Henry Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday in Bavaria, June 20, 2023.Daniel Vogl/picture alliance via Getty Images
He goes to Germany in the early 60s, hes a spy, a diplomat.
World War II, to defeat Nazi Germany.
He gets to Germany and the Bundesrepublik and all of a sudden, he realizes its filled with Nazis.
Morris responded wryly, Maybe.
Once a Nazi, always a Nazi.
Youre talking to a Jew!
Ex-Nazi, my ass.).
The Pigeon Tunnel, based on Cornwells 2016 memoir, debuts on Apple TV+ on October 20.
I felt this very strongly in Davids work.
There clearly is right and wrong, good and bad, good and evil…
Communism, Stalin bad.
In the Q&A Morris attempted to discern the source of Cornwells perspective.
Is it love of England, love of the United Kingdom?
Not exactly, but it is a kind of, dare I say it, patriotism.
But the sons said they thought he would have liked it.
Our dad was fascinated for a long time by Errol before they ever met, Simon Cornwell said.
When I first met him, he interrogated me about Errols motives.
He watched every pixel that Errol had generated and he spied on me at the beginning of the process.
And I found that when I next met him, hed rung up the old colleagues.
He said [to me], I hear youre asking this about me.
Is Errol interested in this?
The conversations were filmed at a grand estate outside London.
