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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.
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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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 fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
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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 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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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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