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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Non-Fiction Writer
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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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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 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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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 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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
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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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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 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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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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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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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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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 don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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