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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.
Errol Morris
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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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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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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, it's a mirror with a memory.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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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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I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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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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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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