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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Film Director
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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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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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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 proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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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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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
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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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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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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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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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
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