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
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,'
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.
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."
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 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?
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.
Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.
I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
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?
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.
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.