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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.
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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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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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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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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I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
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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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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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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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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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