Errol Morris Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• 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.

  Errol Morris

  Miscarriage, Light, Dna

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.

  Errol Morris

  Men, Thinking, Pudding

  From 'Don’t Look Back' to 'After Innocence': A New Book Explores Documentary Filmmaking with Directo, www.indiewire.com. August 25, 2005.

• We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Support, World

• 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.

  Errol Morris

  Mean, Trying, Quests

  Source: www.believermag.com

• People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

  Errol Morris

  People, Historical, Archives

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

• Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

  Errol Morris

  Television, May, Interviews

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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