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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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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere. That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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Basically, Making a Murderer chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
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I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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 remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was Can Capital Punishment Be Humane and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
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