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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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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 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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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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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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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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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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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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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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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[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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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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