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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

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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Basically, Making a Murderer chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.
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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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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 imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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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.
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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
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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 been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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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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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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