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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Hewlett
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Errol Mark Morris
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.
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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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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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 fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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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've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.
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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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