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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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New York
Errol Mark Morris
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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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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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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 is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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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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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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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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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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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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There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.
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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 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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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