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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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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 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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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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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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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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[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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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 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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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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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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