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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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The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?
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I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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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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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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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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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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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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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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Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.
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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 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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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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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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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
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There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere. That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
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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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