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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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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
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I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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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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There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
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Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.
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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.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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