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 Read Quote
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. Jon Ronson Read Quote
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. Jon Ronson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jon Ronson Read Quote
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. Jon Ronson Read Quote
But on the extremist side I didn’t get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. Jon Ronson Read Quote
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. Jon Ronson Read Quote
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. Jon Ronson Read Quote
