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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.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
Errol Morris
Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
Errol Morris
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol Morris
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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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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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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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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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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.
Errol Morris
The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
Errol Morris
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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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.
Errol Morris
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris
If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
Errol Morris
I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
Errol Morris
The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
Errol Morris
I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
Errol Morris
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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