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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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 perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
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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'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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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 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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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, it's a mirror with a memory.
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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
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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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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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