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Q&A: Errol Morris on his John le Carré documentary 'The Pigeon Tunnel'
John le Carré, whose birth name was David Cornwell, died in 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Errol Morris has just sat down with a reporter when his wife calls.
“I’m being deposed,” Morris says, smiling, into his phone. “I hope that it’s going to turn into a criminal investigation, but I believe it’s just an interview.”
Morris, the veteran documentarian of “The Thin Blue Line,”“The Fog of War” and “The Unknown Known,” knows a thing or two about interviews. He famously invented a contraption called “The Interrotron” to capture face-to-face eye contact on camera.
In his latest film, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Morris sits down with the celebrated spy novelist John le Carré, the enigmatic author of “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” The interviews were conducted shortly before the author's death in 2020 at the age of 89.