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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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'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 am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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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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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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Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.
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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.
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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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Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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