66 Quotes by Morgan Spurlock

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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