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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

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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 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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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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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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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 am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
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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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I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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