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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.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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Errol Mark Morris
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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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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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, Yeah, get yourself a different woman.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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 used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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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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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
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