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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.” quote by Errol Morris — Download Open image

“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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In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More…

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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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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

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I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

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The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

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I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

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