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" If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. "
Jon Ronson
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" Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished. "
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" Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. "
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" 'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise. "
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Me
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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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" 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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Over
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Who
" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "
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Entry
Screenwriting
" 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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" I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly. "
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Only
Step
Say
" 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. "
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Trying
Own
Feel
" 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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Tough
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" I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. "
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Way
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" 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
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" 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
" 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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Klan
Being
Doing
" I consider myself a social justice person. "
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Person
Justice
Myself
" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "
Jon Ronson
Type
Call
Fearless
" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "
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Everybody
Together
Film
" I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! "
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Example
Admire
Beautiful
" 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
Get
" 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
" Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face. "
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Women
Culture
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" I just don't think I'm very good at fiction. "
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" In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. "
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Place
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Voice
" 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
" Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. "
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Like
Over
" 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
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" 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
" 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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" Success is always less funny than failure. "
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Success
Less
Funny