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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
Actor
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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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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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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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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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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