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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.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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New York
Errol Mark Morris
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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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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
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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 smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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