Morgan Spurlock Professions : Documentary Filmmaker Born : November 7, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 54 quotes by Morgan Spurlock Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. Morgan Spurlock healthy sorry food Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways. Morgan Spurlock different powerful people 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 epidemics childhood children 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 comfortable chance challenges 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. Morgan Spurlock eye world thinking When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. Morgan Spurlock risk motivation inspiration 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. Morgan Spurlock good-day dog men Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders. Morgan Spurlock thinking I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe. Morgan Spurlock incredibles believe people One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine Morgan Spurlock one-direction imagine moments 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 wall hurt jobs Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple. Morgan Spurlock film simple 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 fans responsibility 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 blue sex people The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up. Morgan Spurlock filmmaker giving-up advice 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 goal people thinking 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 community responsibility giving 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 sneakers shoes giving 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 teacher giving kids I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go. Morgan Spurlock preconceived-notions Similar Authors David Hoffman documentary-filmmaker Eleanor Coppola documentary-filmmaker Rory Kennedy documentary-filmmaker All Authors
