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I Voted For The Black Guy, And What We Got Was The White Guy

New York City Has Become A Place Where It's Not Easy For The Working Class To Even Live.

Openness, Transparency - These Are Among The Few Weapons The Citizenry Has To Protect Itself From The Powerful And The Corrupt... And That Is The Best Thing That Wikileaks Has Done.

The Media Love To Cover Black People On The Front Page. After All, When You Live In A Society That Will Lock Up About 30 Percent Of All Black Men At Some Time In Their Lives And Send More Of Them To Prison Than To College, Chances Are A Fair Number Of Those Black Faces Will End Up In The Newspaper.

The Idea That Cinema Can Be Dangerous Is A Great Idea.

Our Laws Demand That A Corporation Have A Fiduciary Responsibility With Shareholders To Maximize Profits. They Are Legally Required To Make As Much Money As Possible, Any Way Possible Within 'the Law.'

How Do You Deliver Democracy To A Country? You Don't Do It Down The Barrel Of A Gun. That's Not How You Deliver It.

The Nra Hates Freedom. They Don't Want You To Have The Freedom To Send Your Children To School & Expect Them To Come Home Alive.

I Don't Compromise My Values And I Don't Compromise My Work. That's Why I've Been Kicked From One Network To The Next: I Won't Give In.

There Is No Terrorist Threat. Yes, There Have Been Horrific Acts Of Terrorism And, Yes, There Will Be Acts Of Terrorism Again. But That Doesn't Mean That There's Some Kind Of Massive Terrorist Threat.

They Are Possibly The Dumbest People On The Planet... We Americans Suffer From An Enforced Ignorance. We Don't Know About Anything That's Happening Outside Our Country. Our Stupidity Is Embarrassing.

A Common Denominator Among Big Guys Like Me Who Are Trying To Take Care Of Our Health Is That We're Not Getting Enough Sleep.

Instead Of The Government Spending $400,000 On Immunisation, We May Get Far Better Health Outcomes If We Spend $100,000 In Some Other Way, On Nutrition For Example...when You Have An Expenditure On Getting Your Community Healthier, Then The Resistance To Many Childhood Diseases Is Stronger.

We Have To See That We're A Part Of Each Other, And We Have To Take Care Of Each Other. The Reason Why They Have Universal Health Care In Canada And Britain, These Other Places? Because They Believe If One Suffers, Everybody Suffers.

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons. Whether It's The Fictition Of Duct Tape Or Fictition Of Orange Alerts We Are Against This War, Mr. Bush. Shame On You. Mr. Bush, Shame On You. And Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

They May Rail At This Life - From The Hour I Began It, I've Found It A Life Full Of Kindness And Bliss; And Until They Can Show Me Some Happier Planet. More Social And Bright, I'll Content Me With This.

What The Media Are Telling You To Be Afraid Of Are The Wrong Things. Fear Is A Necessary Ingredient Of Our Survival Instincts.

People Like Me Who Grew Up In A Working-class Town, Who Don't Have A College Education, You Don't Usually Hear From Us.

Somehow, I Don't Think Jesus Came To Earth To Ring The Bell At The New York Stock Exchange.

I Did Not Like 'the Hurt Locker.' It's A Lazy Way To Make A Movie, Frankly. I Could Put You On The Edge Of Your Seat Quite Easily, And Have You Feel The Tension For 2 Hours, If Every Other Scene Practically Is, 'should We Cut The Red Wire Or The Green Wire?'

I'm Actually A Fairly Conservative Person. I Live A Very Conservative Lifestyle.

How Can There Be Inaccuracy In Comedy?

No Decisions Should Ever Be Made Without Asking The Question, Is This For The Common Good?

The Justice Department Needs To Investigate How Goldman Sachs Was Able To Steer Things In Such A Manner Through Their Former Employees In The Bush Administration, So That In The End Goldman's Competitors Have Disappeared And Goldman Is Left Standing.

My Employees, There's No Deductible In Your Health Care. No Deductible, Absolutely Not. You Get Paid Sick Days, As Many As You Need, Personal Days.

There's Been Almost A Dozen Films That Have Been Made Against Me. There's Actually More Films Made Attacking Me Than Films I've Made.

I've Always Been Sort Of Confused By The Trajectory My Life Has Taken. I Was Supposed To Be On An Assembly Line Building Buicks.

First Of All, The American People Are Inundated With Advertisement After Advertisement Of You Buy, Buy, Buy. You've Got To Have The Latest Thing. The Ipad 1 Isn't Any Good Anymore, You've Got To Have The Ipad 2. The Iphone 4, Now You've Got To Have Iphone 4s. Now You've Got To Have The 5b, Now You've Got To Have The 6c.

We're Never Gonna Get Rid Of Crazy People. They've Been Around For Thousands Of Years - They'll Continue To Be Around; They'll Continue To Do Horrible Things.

'zero Dark Thirty' Is A Disturbing, Fantastically-made Movie. It Will Make You Hate Torture.

There Is Nowhere In The Four Gospels Where Jesus Uses The Word 'homosexual.'

It Is The Responsibility Of Every Human To Know Their Actions And The Consequences Of Their Actions And To Ask Questions And To Question Things When They Are Wrong.

You Survive By Having Your Fear Compass Calibrated Correctly. Our Compass Is Off Now Because We're Being Told To Be Afraid Of Everything. The Things That We're Frightened Of, Or Told To Be Frightened Of, Are Not Necessarily The Things That We Need To Fear.

I Don't Want People Leaving The Theater Depressed After My Movies. I Want Them Angry.

Should Such An Ignorant People Lead The World? How Did It Come To This In The First Place? 82 Percent Of Us Don't Even Have A Passport! Just A Handful Can Speak A Language Other Than English.

The Entire Business World Has Figured Out How To Make Huge Buckets Of Money Without Hiring Us To Work For Them.

Listen Friends, You Have To Face The Truth: You Are Never Going To Be Rich... The System Is Rigged In Favor Of The Few, And Your Name Is Not Among Them, Not Now And Not Ever.

I Remember The First Time I Received A Cassette Tape Of A Band Called The Clash. I Became An Instant Fan Of The Clash And Then Bought Their Albums After That And Went To Their Concerts And Gave Them My Money... But I First Got It For Free.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

The American Public Believes That Health Care Is A Right And Not A Commodity.

Well, "the Washington Post" Three Weeks Ago Had This Investigation And They Said That President Obama Has Now Raised More Money From Wall Street And The Banks For This Election Cycle Than All - Than All Eight Republicans Combined. I Don't Want To Say That, Because If That's The Truth, That Wall Street Already Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama, Then We've Got A Much Bigger Problem.

I Have Been Aspiring To Write Some Sort Of Literature For A Long Time.

No 22-year-old Should Have To Enter The Real World Already In A Virtual Debtors' Prison.

There's Nothing Inherently Or Patently Wrong With Anybody Who Does Well, Works Hard, Earns A Living, Betters Themselves. I'm Not Against Any Of These Things. It's About How You Make That Money, And Then What You Do With It.

Today, Whether It Is A Student Who Holds A Sit-in To Get The Army Recruiters Off His Campus, Or The Mother Of A Dead Soldier Who Refuses To Leave The Front Gate Of The President's Ranch, We Continue To Be Saved By Brave People Who Risk Ridicule And Rejection But End Up Turning Huge Tides Of Public Opinion In The Direction Of Righteousness. We Owe Them Enormous Debts Of Gratitude. It Is Not Easy To Stand Up For What Is Right, Especially When Everyone Else Is Afraid To Leave The Comfortable Path Of Conformity.

Jesus Told Us That We Would Be Judged By How We Treat The Least Among Us.

There's A Gullible Side To The American People. They Can Be Easily Misled. Religion Is The Best Device Used To Mislead Them.

I'm Not A Pundit. I'm Not An Analyst. I Don't Want To Participate In The Existing Debate That's Going On About Whether Or Not You Should Be Able To Have As Many Guns As You Want To Have Or That Guns Are Even The Problem.

I Went Without Health Insurance Until 'roger & Me,' Basically - From About Age 20 Till About Age 35. With 'roger & Me,' I Joined The Directors Guild And The Writers Guild, And Since Then I've Had Excellent Health Care Managed By The Union.

The Highest Courage Is To Dare To Be Yourself In The Face Of Adversity. Choosing Right Over Wrong, Ethic Over Convenience, And Truth Over Popularity ... These Are Choices That Measure Your Life. Travel The Path Of Integrity Without Looking Back, For There Is Never A Wrong Time To Do The Right Thing.

The Difference Between Ignorant And Educated People Is That The Latter Know More Facts. But That Has Nothing To Do With Whether They Are Stupid Or Intelligent. The Difference Between Stupid And Intelligent People-and This Is True Whether Or Not They Are Well-educated-is That Intelligent People Can Handle Subtlety. They Are Not Baffled By Ambiguous Or Even Contradictory Situations-in Fact, They Expect Them And Are Apt To Become Suspicious When Things Seem Overly Straightforward.

I've Read Stories Of Slave Owners Who Were Very Generous. They Didn't Keep Them In Shackles, They Didn't Whip The Slaves, They Built Schools And Churches For Them, Free Housing, Free Food, Free Everything. It's Wrong. No Matter How Nice You Make It Look, It's Wrong.

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Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport, It's A Participatory Event. If We Don't Participate In It, It Ceases To Be A Democracy.

I'm The Kind Of Person That Believes There's A Part Of Your Voting That Has To Be Purely On Principle, And There's A Part That Has To Be On Strategy.

In Accordance To The Principles Of Doublethink, It Does Not Matter If The War Is Not Real, Or When It Is, That Victory Is Not Possible. The War Is Not Meant To Be Won. It Is Meant To Be Continuous. The Essential Act Of Modern Warfare Is The Destruction Of The Produce Of Human Labour. A Hierarchical Society Is Only Possible On The Basis Of Poverty And Ignorance. In Principle, The War Effort Is Always Planned To Keep Society On The Brink Of Starvation. The War Is Waged By The Ruling Group Against Its Own Subjects, And Its Object Is Not Victory Over Eurasia Or Eastasia, But To Keep The Very Structure Of Society Intact.

There's No Violence Coming From The Occupy Protesters.

400 Obscenely Rich People, Most Of Whom Benefited In Some Way From The Multi-trillion Dollar Taxpayer "bailout" Of 2008, Now Have As Much Loot, Stock And Property As The Assets Of 155 Million Americans Combined.

It Should Be A Crime To Make A Profit Off Somebody Being Sick.

I Had An Unusually Large-sized Head, Though This Was Not Uncommon For A Baby In The Midwest. The Craniums In Our Part Of The Country Were Designed To Leave A Little Extra Room For The Brain To Grow In Case One Day We Found Ourselves Exposed To Something We Didn't Understand, Like A Foreign Language, Or A Salad.

I Don't Believe That The Bush Administration Had Something To Do With September 11th. I Do Believe That There Were A Lot Of Warning Signals, But I Don't Think They Were Ignored On Purpose - Bush Just Wanted To Go To The Ranch For A Month.

I Get Called 'controversial' All The Time.

Every Fact In My Films Is True. And Yet How Often Do I Have To Read Over And Over Again About Supposed Falsehoods?

There Should Be No Private Health Insurance Companies Operating For Profit.

Private Health Insurance

My Dad Was An Assembly Line Worker At Ac Spark Plug, Which Was A Division Of General Motors, And His Job Was To Build And Then Inspect The Little Spark Plugs As They Came Off The Line.

It Really Is Disgusting When A Guy In A Ball Cap With A High School Education Is The One Asking The Tough Questions.

Tough Questions

If We Didn't Have Social Security, Our Seniors Would Live Mostly In Poverty. You'd Have Another 18 Million People In Poverty.

Horace's Best Ode Would Not Please A Young Woman As Much As The Mediocre Verses Of The Young Man She Is In Love With.

I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.

I Think If People Who Are Attacking Me Or Against Me, If They Would Just Watch One Of My Films, They Would - They May Not Agree With Me Politically On All The Things I'm Saying. But They Will Know At The End Of The Film That I Love This Country And That I Have A Heart. And They'll Have A Good Laugh Throughout The Film.

Librarians See Themselves As The Guardians Of The First Amendment. You Got A Thousand Mother Joneses At The Barricades! I Love The Librarians, And I Am Grateful For Them!

The Left, Liberals, Believe That If We Just Have More Gun Control Laws, All The Problems Are Going To Go Away. Well, I Don't Think So. I Don't Think So. I Think - Yes, It Will, It Will Be Reduced. There's No Question About That.

If Someone Did This Fahrenheit 9/11 To Get Back At Bush, Then They Did So By Killing Thousands Of People Who Did Not Vote For Him! Boston, New York, D.c., And The Planes' Destination Of California - These Were Places That Voted Against Bush!

The Iraqis Who Have Risen Up Against The Occupation Are Not 'insurgents' Or 'terrorists' Or 'the Enemy.' They Are The Revolution, The Minutemen, And Their Numbers Will Grow - And They Will Win.

I Think There Are Few Things More Patriotic Than Taking The Time To Make Your Country A Better Place.

Ask Anyone On Social Security If Their Check Comes On Time Every Month. Like Clockwork. And It Comes Through The So-called Dilapidated U.s. Mail. My Dad's Check Literally Will Come On The Same Day Every Month. The Government Has Been Quite Good And Efficient At Creating A Number Of Systems.

Since 9/11, The Bush Administration Has Used That Tragic Event As A Justification To Rip Up Our Constitution And Our Civil Liberties. And I Honestly Believe That One Or Two 9/11s, And Martial Law Will Be Declared In Our Country And We're Inching Towards A Police State.

I Was Taught From A Very Early Age That It Was Probably The Most American Thing You Can Do Is To Question What's Going On And To Try To Fix Things That You See That Aren't Right. I Believed That As A Young Person, And I Believe That Today.

I And You And Everyone Else Has To Be A Political Activist.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive. "surviving" Is For Wimps And Game Show Contestants Stranded In The Jungle Or On A Desert Island. You Are Not Stranded. You Own The Store....you Deserve Better.

When The Women's Liberation Movement Began, When People Began Protesting Against The Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, At The Beginning Of Those Movements, The Majority Of The Country Was Not With Them, Did Not Believe In The Basic Principles Of Any Of Those Philosophies.

I Personally Hold Blair More Responsible For This War Than I Do George Bush. The Reason Is, Blair Knows Better, Blair Is Not An Idiot. What Is He Doing Hanging Around This Guy?

We All Need To Be Huge Supporters Of The Theatrical Documentary.

One Of The Most Ironic Things About Capitalism Is That The Capitalist Will Sell You The Rope To Hang Himself With. Actually They Will Give You The Money To Make A Movie That Makes Them Look Bad, If They Believe They Can Make Money Off It.

We Reward People For Making Money Off Money, And Moving Money Around And Dividing Up Mortgages A Thousand Times Over, Selling It To China... And It Becomes This Shell Game.

Wall Street, The Banks, And Corporate America, Has Been Able To Call The Shots Here. They Control Our Members Of Congress And They Get What They Want.

I Like America To Some Extent.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

The Days Of Using My Name As A Pejorative Are Now Over. The Right Wing Turned Me Into An Accidental Spokesperson For The Liberal, Majority Agenda.

Under Reagan Came The Idea Of Putting Your Pension Plan In The Stock Market, Which Wasn't A Guaranteed Pension.

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me. I Have Never Been Attacked By A Black Person, Never Been Evicted By A Black Person, Never Had My Security Deposit Ripped Off By A Black Landlord, Never Had A Black Landlord, Never Been Pulled Over By A Black Cop, Never Been Sold A Lemon By A Black Car Salesman, Never Seen A Black Car Salesman, Never Had A Black Person Deny Me A Bank Loan, Never Had A Black Person Bury My Movie, And I've Never Heard A Black Person Say, 'we're Going To Eliminate Ten Thousand Jobs Here - Have A Nice Day!'

My Film About Bush Didn't Prevent His Reelection.

Republicans Are Relentless And They're Smart, Too - They're Not All Dumb - And On Election Day, They'll Be Up At Five In The Morning.

And Realising That Humour Is The Most Powerful Way To Make A Political Statement And Say The Things That You Want To Say. And It's Not Used Enough, At Least Not In The U.s.

I've Always Felt So Grateful That I Dropped Out Of School, That I Never Had To Do A Thesis. I Wouldn't Know How To Organise And Structure Myself To Film So That B Follows A And C Follows B.

There's No Such Thing As Enough.

Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

Guarantees That

If We Say, 'the Government Sucks,' We're Kind Of Saying That We Suck.

We Should Be Licensing Everybody With A Gun. I Have To Have A License For My Dog. I Have To Have A License For My Car. If You’re Going To Do My Hair Later You Have To Have A License ... We Don’t Require A License To Own A Firearm?

A Government Run By Billionaires For Billionaires Is An Affront To Freedom And Morality And Humanity.

I Have A Rule: I Want The Pilot Flying Me Up In The Air At 30,000 Feet To Make More Than A Guy Working At Taco Bell.

I'm A Millionaire, I'm A Multi-millionaire, I'm Filthy Rich. You Know Why I'm A Multi-millionaire? 'cause Multi-millions Like What I Do.

As The Country Continues To Dissect The Recent Natural Disaster, We Might Want To Start Considering What About The Disaster Wasn't Actually 'natural' At All. ... Human Activity, The Burning Of Fossil Fuels, Is Causing Global Warming. Global Warming Is Causing The Oceans To Warm. Warm Oceans Are Steroids For Storms.

You Share Things With People And I Think Information, And Art, And Ideas Should Be Shared.

I Believe That When You Provide Information To People, They Become Less Fearful And They Will Engage More In Their Democracy If They Are Empowered With Information.

Clearly I Am A Person Who Suffers From A Lack Of Ego.

I Certainly Believe That I Have No Right To Tell Another Couple Whether They Can Or Cannot Be Married.

Capitalism Would Have Never Let Me Be A Filmmaker, Living In Flint, Michigan With A High School Education. I Was Going To Have To Make That Happen Myself.

I Think People Should Start To Practice The Words 'president Romney.'

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons.

You Know He's [george W. Bush] There Illegally. You Know He Was Not Elected Either By The Popular Vote Or By The Vote In Florida.

The Economic System That The United States Has Is An Evil Empire. It's An Economic System That's Not Fair, Not Just, And It's Not Democratic. And It Will Fall Just Like Communism Fell. The Richest 1 Percent Now Own 50 Percent Of The Wealth. It Didn't Use To Be That Way. The Average Ceo 20 Years Ago Made 20 Times As Much As The Average Employee. Now They Make 212 Times As Much.

One Thing I Learned As A Journalist Is That There Is At Least One Disgruntled Person In Every Workplace In America - And At Least Double That Number With A Conscience. Hard As They Try, They Simply Can't Turn Their Heads Away From An Injustice When They See One Taking Place.

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

Wikileaks, God Bless Them, Will Save Lives As A Result Of Their Actions.

Clinton Was A Pretty Good President For A Republican.

Middle Class Jobs Prevent Crime And Violence.

For A Documentary Filmmaker, I Do Very Well.

I Respect The Fact That People Have Worked Hard All Week And Want To Go To The Movies On The Weekend And Be Entertained.

Here's What I Don't Think Works: An Economic System That Was Founded In The 16th Century And Another That Was Founded In The 19th Century. I'm Tired Of This Discussion Of Capitalism And Socialism; We Live In The 21st Century, We Need An Economic System That Has Democracy As Its Underpinnings And An Ethical Code.

L.a. - Talk About A Cruel City: Patients Are Forcibly Removed From Hospitals.

I Was Kind Of A Strange Child. My Parents Knew Early On That Something Must Have Been Wrong With Me. I Crawled Backwards Until I Was Two, But Had Kennedy's Inaugural Address Memorized By The Time I Was Six.

I'm A Religious Fanatic? Yes, I Am, Actually.

Religious Fanatics

Back In The '80s And '90s, When Gm Was Consistently Posting Giant Profits, They Were Simultaneously Firing Tens Of Thousands Of Workers In My Hometown Of Flint And Across Michigan.

Hope For The Best Is What We Do, Right From The Moment We're Born.

I Really Didn't Realize The Librarians Were, You Know, Such A Dangerous Group. They Are Subversive. You Think They're Just Sitting There At The Desk, All Quiet And Everything. They're Like Plotting The Revolution, Man. I Wouldn't Mess With Them. You Know, They've Had Their Budgets Cut. They're Paid Nothing. Books Are Falling Apart. The Libraries Are Just Like The Ass End Of Everything, Right?

We As Americans Believe It’s Ok To Kill People. We Believe It’s Ok To Invade A Country That Had Nothing To Do With 9/11. We Think It’s Ok To Invade A Country Where We Think Osama Bin Laden Is And He’s In The Other Country. So We Just Go In And We Just Kill. And We Have The Death Penalty, We Sanction It.

A Lot Of People On Capitol Hill Don't Want To Talk To Me.

If The Founding Fathers Could Have Looked Into A Crystal Ball And Seen Ak-47s And Glock Semi-automatic Pistols, I Think They Would Say, You Know, 'that's Not Really What We Mean When We Say Bear Arms.'

Greed Has Been With Human Beings Forever. We Have A Number Of Things In Our Species That You Would Call 'the Dark Side,' And Greed Is One Of Them. If You Don't Put Certain Structures In Place Or Restrictions On Those Parts Of Our Being That Come From That Dark Place, Then It Gets Out Of Control.

One Thing I've Learned About Death Threats Is That They're Great, Actually. You Should Actually Be Grateful For Death Threats Because Those Who Are Taking The Time To Threaten You That Way Are Getting It Out Of Their System. That's Really What They Rant To Do, Yell At You, And They Want To Threaten You.

I Don't Like To Sit Around Whining About The Corporate Media, How They Control Everything, Own Everything. We Already Know That.

If You're In A Diabetic Or Prediabetic State, It's Good To Have Medication To Go On For A Period Of Time. But Simply By Making The Changes - Get Your Sleep, 35 Grams Of Fiber And A Half-hour Walk - Your Cholesterol Will Come Down, Your Sugar Will Come Down, And Your Blood Pressure Will Come Down. Only The Minority Of People Can't Control It.

The Upper 1 Percent, The People Down On Wall Street, The Corporate Executives, They're The People That Control This Economy.

You Know We Are Flawed People, So If Someone Is Going To Make A Movie About Me, They Don't Have To Make It Up. My Real Flaws Are Much Funnier.

If The Guy Out In The Woods With The Michigan Militia Is A Real Estate Negotiator, Instead Of Some Crackpot, And Has A Normal Life, That's Unnerving. You Don't Want To Think It's As Normal As The Guy Next Door, Hedging His Lawn. It's Easier To Demonize Or Separate Them Off From 'us.'

Documentaries Are A Form Of Journalism.

There's Politics In All Aspects Of Our Daily Lives.

People Of My Age Who Went To College, Go Into College, You Know What It Cost Back Then? Nothing Or Next To Nothing. At The Most, You Had To Work At Dairy Queen During The Summer And That Would Pay For Your College Education.

Capitalism Is An Evil, And You Cannot Regulate Evil.

Now That I Exist In The Mainstream Majority, I'm Not Really So Controversial Any More, Am I? Not Really News.

The Movie Theater Is Never Going Away. If That Was A Case Why Are There Still Restaurants? People Still Have Kitchens In Their Home!

You Do Not Have The Right To Take Another Human's Life, Unless It's In Strict Self-defense.

No One Is Entertained By Economics.

It Turns Out Cuba Has This Incredible Healthcare System For A Very Poor Country.

The Motivation For War Is Simple. The U.s. Government Started The War With Iraq In Order To Make It Easy For U.s. Corporations To Do Business In Other Countries. They Intend To Use Cheap Labor In Those Countries, Which Will Make Americans Rich.

There's Only One Movie Theater In The Entire City Of Detroit. The Entire City Has One Open Movie Theater, And It Is In The - It Is In The General Motors Headquarters Complex.

The Purpose Of Art Actually Is, In Many Cases, To Make You Feel Quite Uncomfortable. Or At Least To Go To That Place That's Already Of Discomfort Inside Of You And Tap Into That.

It's All Part Of The Same Ball Of Wax, Right? The Oil Companies, Israel, Halliburton.

I Want Americans To Realize That We Are The Owners Of This Country, And That One Person Can Make A Difference.

Making A Difference

I'm Used To My Films Having Little Effect On Making The World A Better Place.

Contrary To What Those In Power Would Like You To Believe So That You'll Give Up Your Pension, Cut Your Wages, And Settle For The Life Your Great-grandparents Had, America Is Not Broke. Not By A Long Shot. The Country Is Awash In Wealth And Cash.

As You Have Fewer And Fewer Voices In A Democracy, In A Free Society, It's Not Good To Limit The Number Of Voices.

Capitalism And Democracy Are The Opposite Of Each Other. Capitalism Is A System That Guarantees That A Few Are Going To Do Very Well, And Everybody Else Is Going To Serve The Few. Democracy Means Everybody Has A Seat At The Table. Everybody.

Guarantees That

This Is The Crux Of The Problem: Because The Republicans And The Right Wing Have Been Successful In Almost Eliminating Unions, Everyone Else Has Suffered As A Result.

How About That Mcdonald's Two Blocks From Ground Zero? That's Killed More People Than The 19 Hijackers.

I Made 'bowling For Columbine' In The Hope The School Shootings Would Stop And That We Would Address The Issue Of How Easy It Is To Get A Gun In The United States, And Tragically, Those School Shootings Continue.

We Are The Richest Country In The World. We Spend More On Health Care Than Any Other Country. Yet We Have The Worst Health Care In The Western World. Come On. We Can Do Better Than This.

I'm A Highly Flawed Individual, As We All Are, And Because I Was Raised By Jesuits, I'm Constantly, 'what Is It About Me And What I Can Do To Be Better?'

Oprah's Got Good Politics, She's Got A Good Heart, And She'll Have Us All Up Jazzercising At Six In The Morning. This Cannot Be A Bad Thing, And Reading A Book While We're Jazzercising. So America Would Be Better Off If Oprah Were President.

A Lot Of Political People, Especially People On The Left, Have Forgotten The Importance Of Humor As An Incredible Weapon, And A Vehicle Through Which To Affect Change.

'champagne' And 'breathmint' Are The First Two Words All Oscar Winners Hear.

The Worst Way To Defend Our Freedom Is To Let Our Leaders Start Taking Away Our Freedoms! It Is Exactly During Times Like These [a National Crisis] That We Need More Freedom Of Speech, A Strong And Critical Press, And A Citizenry That Is Not Afraid To Stand Up And Say That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

The Vast Majority Of The Guns In The U.s. Are Sold To White People Who Live In The Suburbs Or The Country. When We Fantasize About Being Mugged Or Home Invaded, What's The Image Of The Perpetrator In Our Heads? Is It The Freckled-face Kid From Down The Street - Or Is It Someone Who Is, If Not Black, At Least Poor?

This Life Is A Gift, And To Reject That Gift Or Abuse That Gift Is Not Human And Not Worthy Of Us.

If There Ever Is A Struggle, Making A Good Movie Will Always Supersede The Need To Be Noble.

You Can't Debate Satire. Either You Get It Or You Don't.

Most Liberals I Know Were For Invading Afghanistan Right After 9/11.

Building Up The Arms Did Not Cause The Fall Of Eastern Europe.

Three Of The Top Six Documentaries Of All Time, Grossing, Are Made By Me.

Capitalism Is An Evil, And You Cannot Regulate Evil. You Have To Eliminate It And Replace It With Something That Is Good For All People And That Something Is Democracy.

Nobody Was Talking About Healthcare Until 'sicko' Came Out.

I Assume Everything I'm Saying In An Email Or Saying On The Telephone Is Being Looked At.

I'm From The Midwest, And Guys Like Me Don't Go On Diets. We Don't Do Well On Spinning Classes.

All Religions Teach The Same Basic Thing, That You Have To Stand Up For Those That Are Considered The Worst.

If We Don't Participate In It, It Ceases To Be A Democracy. So Obama Will Rise Or Fall Based Not So Much On What He Does But On What We Do To Support Him.

Maybe We Should Be Directing Our Anger Elsewhere - Like Toward Wall Street. Why Is It We Never Think Of Big Business When We Think Of Welfare Recipients? Companies Take More Of Our Tax Dollars, And In Much More Questionable Ways, Than Do Those Who Are Trying To Heat Their Apartments With A Kerosene Stove.

When You Come From The Working Class And You Do Well Enough Whereby You Can Provide A Little Bit Better For Your Family, Get A Decent Roof Over Their Head And Send Them To A Good School, That's Considered A Good Thing.

I Have Enormous Respect For Anyone Who Would Offer To Sacrifice Their Life To Defend My Right To Live. Is There Any Greater Gift One Can Give Another?

We Should All Spend Some Time Of Our Life Doing Service To Our Country. To Me, I Would Give Up A Couple Of Years.

Post-war Filmmakers Gave Us The Documentary, Rob Reiner Gave Us The Mockumentary And Moore Initiated A Third Genre, The Crockumentary.

North Korea Has Taught A Great Lesson To All The Countries In The World, Especially The Rogue Countries Of Dictatorships Or Whatever: If You Don't Want To Be Invaded By America, Get Some Nuclear Weapons.

I Think I'm In The Majority Of Americans. I Believe That I Am In The Mainstream Of Middle America.

I'd Feel Bad If I Had You Come Into A Theater And You Leave Feeling Ripped Off.

I Mean If Politics Was My Main Motivation I Would Be Doing Politics. But I'm A Filmmaker.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

Television Has Its Own Award. It's Called The Emmy. It's A Good Award. I Like It. I Have One. But You Don't See Movies Like 'the King's Speech' Win Oscars And Then Go To Tv And Qualify For Emmys. In Documentaries, Some Networks Have Been Able To Game The System.

If I Were A Capitalist I Would Not Give My Employees Health Insurance With No Deductible, Which I Do, Including Dental, And Paid Pregnancy Leave. That's Not Called Capitalism, That's Called Being A Christian And Someone Who Believes In Democracy, So That Everyone Should Get A Fair Slice Of The Pie.

Nothing Seems Crueler--or More Ironic--than These Upper Crusters Who Never Pay A Dime For Their High-priced Shrinks Or Reflexology Sessions To Call Those Who Just Want That Tumor Removed From Their Uterus A Bunch Of Commies. Well, The Revolution Is At Hand And Let's Hope All Those Uninsured Commies Give The Rich Such A Headache That A Whole Bottle Of Advil Won't Be Enough To Take The Pain Way.

These Bastards Who Run Our Country Are A Bunch Of Conniving, Thieving, Smug Pricks Who Need To Be Brought Down And Removed And Replaced With A Whole New System That We Control.

I'm A Citizen In A Democracy. To Call Me An Activist Would Be Redundant. It's Not A Spectator Sport. If We All Become Non-participants, It No Longer Works.

If You Believe In Equality, If You Believe In Standing Up For The Rights Of All, Especially For People Most Affected By Bigotry And Discrimination, Then You Have No Choice But To Be Present And Accounted For When It Comes To Standing Up For Gays And Lesbians In Our Society.

If Anything, I Don't Have To Convince The American Public That We Have A Broken Health-care System. I Think The Majority Of Americans Since They Have To Go Through That Health-care System, Already Know It.

If One Job Doesn't Pay All The Bills, Don't Worry. You Can Get Another One And Another One And Another One.

Bush's Presidency Is Revisionism-proof. We're Going To Be Recovering From It For The Rest Of Our Lives.

I Think As A Filmmaker My First Contribution Would Just Be To Make A Good Movie That People Would Love To See And Leave The Theatre Charged, With A Sense Of Excitement.

I Don't Even Like Dvds. Honest To God, In My Lifetime, I Might Have Rented A Dozen Dvds, Literally Gone Into A Video Store And Rented A Dozen Dvds In My Lifetime, Because I Don't Like To See Movies That Way. I Like To See Them On The Big Screen.

I Realized That This Was The Big Secret Of Democracy -- That Change Can Occur By Starting Off With Just A Few People Doing Something.

It's Not Surprising To Me That In A Country Born Of Racial Genocide, The Issue Of Race Is Still An Open Wound On The American Soul. We Haven't Dealt With It.

If You're White, And You Really Want To Help Change Things, Why Not Start With Yourself?

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