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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
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Non-Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
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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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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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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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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
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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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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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