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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, i never would have believed it. it wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
-Errol Morris
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If You Told Me Thirty Years Ago

Errol Morris
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, i never would have believed it. it wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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