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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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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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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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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 like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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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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Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
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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 believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, it's a mirror with a memory.
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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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