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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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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 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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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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'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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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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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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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