50+ Morgan Spurlock Quotes On Alcohol, Religion And Ethics

Morgan Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for his film Super Size Me. He is also the creator and host of the television series 30 Days. He is a producer and director of many documentaries, television shows, and feature films. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Morgan Spurlock on alcohol, religion, ethics.

Top 10 Morgan Spurlock Quotes

1. Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
2. Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.
3. When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.'
8. The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Morgan Spurlock Short Quotes

• I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.
• I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.
• It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.
• One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine
• I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
• I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Morgan Spurlock Quotes About People

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? — Morgan Spurlock

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe. — Morgan Spurlock

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

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

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

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

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

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

Morgan Spurlock Quotes About Kids

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

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

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. — Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Morgan Spurlock

In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes — Morgan Spurlock

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

"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

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

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

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. — Morgan Spurlock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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? — Morgan Spurlock

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

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. — Morgan Spurlock

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

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Morgan Spurlock

1. Morgan Spurlock teaches us to be fearless in the pursuit of our dreams and to never give up. He also encourages us to be open-minded and to think outside the box when it comes to problem-solving. Finally, he reminds us that it is important to take risks and to be willing to fail in order to succeed.