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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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[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.
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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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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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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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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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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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 perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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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 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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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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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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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was Can Capital Punishment Be Humane and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.
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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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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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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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