I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the … - Errol Morris

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How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

Errol Morris

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

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What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist
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There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

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Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something. . . it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!

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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.

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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

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