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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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 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 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 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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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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