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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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New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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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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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere. That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
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I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, Yeah, get yourself a different woman.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
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