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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
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A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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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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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
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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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I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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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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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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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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