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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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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'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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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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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.
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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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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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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I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
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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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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