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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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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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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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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
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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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