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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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 believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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