Morgan Spurlock Quotes

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.