Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Valentine Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and political activist, best known for the documentary films Super Size Me, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope and One Direction: This Is Us. Spurlock was the executive producer and star of the reality television series 30 Days. In June 2013, he became host and producer of the CNN show Morgan Spurlock...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 November 1970
CityParkesburg, WV
CountryUnited States of America
It was the wrong place at the wrong time, a matter of circumstances, I think. It was never my intention to offend anyone.
I thought it's two birds with one stone ? to lose weight and to prove a point for the little fat people, ... Just because they accidentally put an apple pie in my bag instead of my apple dippers doesn't mean I'm going to say, 'Oh, I can eat the apple pie.'
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?
The debate continues in America, but anytime people start to question it the people start to say, 'Well you're against farmers, you're against farming in America,'
There was a time when science was respected by politicians and government officials and when the information obtained through unbiased scientific exploration was used for the better of society.
This is good. This is really good. To already have this many people have this much passion about something is more than you could ever hope for.
I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.
Just McDonald's by themselves spends 1.2 billion dollars a year. And that's just radio, television and print. That's an obscene amount of money.
The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.