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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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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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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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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