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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, Yeah, get yourself a different woman.
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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
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