Ronson, Jon Filmography

• Frank
  2014, role: writer
• Them
  2011, role: writer
• On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
  2009, role: writer
• Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Reverend Death
  2008, role: director
• Reverend Death
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
  2008, role: writer
• Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
  2008, role: director
• £50 Says You'll Watch This
  2007, role: actor
• Kidneys for Jesus
  2003, role: producer
• Kidneys for Jesus
  2003, role: director
• Kidneys for Jesus
  2003, role: writer
• Kidneys for Jesus
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 24 Hour Party People: The Factory Records Saga
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Greatest Films
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The New Klan
  1999, role: director
• The New Klan
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Critical Condition
  1998, role: writer
• Tottenham Ayatollah
  1997, role: director
• Tottenham Ayatollah
  1997, role: writer
• Tottenham Ayatollah
  1997, role: producer
• Tottenham Ayatollah
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Dennis Pennis R.I.P.
  1997, role: writer
• Pyjama Jump
  1995, role: writer
• Pyjama Jump
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Ronson Mission
  1993, role: writer

Famous quotes by Jon Ronson:

"They said, 'Come on, who would you rather have living next to you? The crazy white-separatist Weavers or a family of respected FBI agents?' ... The only answer I could come up with was, 'Whichever one plays their music quieter.'"

"[Rachel, in particular,] was wise beyond her years, ... I think that if Rachel had been raised in North London, she'd be going to Starbucks and studying at art school and voting for Tony Blair."

"[There was the Arkansas Klansman Thom Robb, for example, who couldn't quite figure out where he fit in.] He wanted to give the Klan an image makeover, by banning the robes and the hoods and the 'N word' -- as he always called it ... and hatred in general, ... even though his members were always sidling up to him and whispering, 'Uh, Thom, we kind of joined the Klan because we wanted to hate people.'"

"I certainly believe the Weavers were utterly innocent, were a threat to nobody, and if you can't believe crazy things on top of a mountain in Idaho, where can you believe crazy things?"

"When David says that 12-foot blood-drinking child-sacrificing pedophile lizards secretly rule the world, he really is referring to lizards."

"I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh."

"In April 2001, Bert Rodriguez took on a new student. His name was Ziad Jarrah. Ziad just turned up at the US 1 Fitness Center one day and said he had heard that Bert was good. Why Ziad chose Bert, of all the martial arts instructors scattered around the Florida shoreline, is a matter of speculation. Maybe Bert's uniquely occultic reputation preceded him, or perhaps it was Bert's military connections. Plus, Bert had once taught the head of security for a Saudi prince. Maybe that was it."

"No. Spiritual is the wrong word. He's occultic. He's like a walking embodiment of death. He can stop you at a distance. He can influence physical events just with his mind. If he catches your attention he can stop you without touching you."

"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."

"I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person."

"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."

"Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."

"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."

"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."

"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."

"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."