Latest Morgan Spurlock Quotes from Interviews

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• Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Simple, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think that I'm pretty much who you see onscreen. Are there times when I ask questions of people and have a sense of what their answer may be? Sure. I think that you can't deny that. But you still want to hear from that person, even though you may anticipate what they may say. I am as natural right now as I am when I talk to somebody in the Middle East. It's just trying to be a real person to them. So long as I can be as honest with myself when I make a movie like that, I can continue to be honest with you.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Preconceived Notions

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You come downstairs, turn off the TV, and then and your son says, 'Daddy, I want to get that wrestling set, and all the pieces are sold separately.' The minute he quotes a commercial verbatim, that's when he's had enough TV.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Wrestling, Son, Enough

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

  Morgan Spurlock

  People, Honest, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I think we had an incredible opportunity to capitalize on that right up to Libya. I think we've made a step toward something that might be a mistake. I personally believe Saddam Hussein and Ghadafi are not good guys by any judgement, and there are ways to deal with it beyond what we did. Once you decide to attack, it paints an ill-conceived picture.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Mistake, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens...we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Judgement, Insulting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Challenges, Chance, Comfortable

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Good Intentions, Intention, Tragic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Hurt, Jobs, Wall

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, America, Upset

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Apathetic, Disconnected

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Years, Humanity, Lilies

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Laughter, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."

  Morgan Spurlock

  Mom, Kids, Used

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Powerful, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Responsibility, People, Fans

  "Size Matters". Interview with Laura Nathan, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

• I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can, in real time, produce something that holds people accountable. That's an exciting time to be living in.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Technology, People

  "'It felt like the bullsh*t was flowing directly at us': Morgan Spurlock turns fact-checking the outrageous GOP debate into a game". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.salon.com. October 29, 2015.

• My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of empathy into me as a young man, as a young person. My mom was kind of this collector of people; throughout my childhood, it didn't matter who you were. She was a high school counselor and then a junior high counselor, and she didn't just counsel students, she counseled other teachers and administrators and coaches.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary is for me. I think a documentary is about capturing events as they unfold in real time.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Thinking, Documentaries

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

• I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Gun, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Moving, Technology, Advancement

  Source: www.movieweb.com