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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
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.
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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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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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I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, Yeah, get yourself a different woman.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere. That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
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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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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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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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