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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
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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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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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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 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 used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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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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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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