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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
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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 remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was Can Capital Punishment Be Humane and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
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I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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'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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