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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
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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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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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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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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I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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