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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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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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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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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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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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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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I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
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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'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.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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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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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
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