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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
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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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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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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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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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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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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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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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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