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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.

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
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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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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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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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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 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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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.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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 smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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