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I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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 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 think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
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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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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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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 like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.
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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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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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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
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I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.
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