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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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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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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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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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 always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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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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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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 don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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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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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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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