Morgan Spurlock Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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  Simple, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."

  Morgan Spurlock

  People, Understanding, Fringe

  "Q+A: Morgan Spurlock Explains How He Got 'Mansome'". Interview with Kurt Soller, www.esquire.com. May 10, 2012.

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• "Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Fun, Next, Looks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Kind, Moments, Breakthrough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

  Morgan Spurlock

  People, Want, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Art, Impact, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.

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  Art, The End Of The Day, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Believe, Character

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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  Gun, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Moving, Technology, Advancement

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Laughter, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Judgement, Insulting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Apathetic, Disconnected

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

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• I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Journey, Average, Two

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed

  Morgan Spurlock

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 04, 2004.

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