Morgan Spurlock Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.

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#3. I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

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#4. More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

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#5. 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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#6. 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.

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#7. I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

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#8. One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine

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#9. When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

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#13. I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

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#14. You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?

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#15. I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

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#16. 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."

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#17. I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

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#20. What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

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

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#22. 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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#23. I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.

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#28. 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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#29. ["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.

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#30. The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

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

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#32. The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

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