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

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Morgan Spurlock
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 7
Documentary Filmmaker
Film Director
Journalist
Screenwriter
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Morgan Valentine Spurlock
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Selling
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I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.
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I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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