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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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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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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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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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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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I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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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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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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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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 proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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 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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