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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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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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