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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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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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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 done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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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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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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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've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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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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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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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.
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