I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
Errol MorrisThe imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
Errol MorrisPart of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
Errol MorrisThere 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.
Errol MorrisLong, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
Errol MorrisBasically, "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