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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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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
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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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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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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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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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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've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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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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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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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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 like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
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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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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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