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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.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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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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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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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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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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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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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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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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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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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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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 smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.
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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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