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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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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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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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I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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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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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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