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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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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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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've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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Basically, Making a Murderer chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.
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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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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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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 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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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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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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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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