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" Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad. "
Jon Ronson
Trying
Own
Feel
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" But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. "
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" I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. "
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" Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. "
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" Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. "
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" Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. "
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" Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. "
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" Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work. "
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" You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology. "
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" No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. "
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Need
Home
Moment
" But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. "
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Talk
Side
Me
" Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him. "
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Philosophy
Him
End
" I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. "
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Feel Good
Good
Looking
" Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. "
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Sometimes
You
Tyranny
" What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups. "
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Write
Lucky
Greed
" If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. "
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Four
Looking
Interview
" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "
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Type
Call
Fearless
" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "
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Smooth
Entry
Screenwriting
" The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter. "
Jon Ronson
World
Life
Person
" I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. "
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Me
Going
Like
" In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. "
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You
Patience
Empathy
" Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle. "
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System
Film
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" At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. "
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" My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. "
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" When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things. "
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" There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules. "
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Space
Say
Rules
" I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. "
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Feel
Journalism
Facts
" When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges. "
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Watch
Become
Hanging
" The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. "
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Lose
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" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "
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Together
Film