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I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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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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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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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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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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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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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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