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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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Errors
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World
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Examination

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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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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 such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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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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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 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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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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 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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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 am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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