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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.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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 don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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