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I've Been Encouraging Documentary Filmmakers To Use More And More Humor, And They're Loath To Do That Because They Think If It's A Documentary It Has To Be Deadly Serious - It Has To Be Like Medicine That You're Supposed To Take. And I Think It's What Keeps The Mass Audience From Going To Documentaries.

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Michael Moore

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I've Been Encouraging Documentary Filmmakers To Use More And More Humor, And They're Loath To Do That Because They Think If It's A Documentary It Has To Be Deadly Serious - It Has To Be Like Medicine That You're Supposed To Take. And I Think It's What Keeps The Mass Audience From Going To Documentaries.

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Because I Have An Opinion, I Have Become Public Enemy Number One To The Fox News Channel And The Right Wing.

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.

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There's Nothing Pure About Capitalism.

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

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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.

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

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

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I've Never Supported This Concept Of Going After Napster. I Think The Rock Bands Who Fought This Were Wrong.

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Most Americans, In Their Heart, Are Liberal And Progressive. It's Just A Small Minority Of People Who Hate, They Hate, They Exist In The Politics Of Hate, They Don't Believe Two Consenting Adults Should Have The Right To Be In Love And Share Their Lives Together And Be Legally Protected By The State.

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.

In Some States, You Can Vote A Straight Party Ticket, But You Can't Vote For Individual Candidates.

In Spite Of Bush's Win, The Majority Of Americans Still Think The Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction (56%), Think The War Wasn't Worth Fighting (51%), And Don't Approve Of The Job George W. Bush Is Doing (52%).

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I Did A Filmstrip On Pollution In The Davison Area As My Eagle Scout Project And Showed It Around Town. Businesses Who Were The Polluters Were Mad At Me.

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I May Be Preaching To The Choir, But The Choir Needs A Good Song.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive.

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

How Can There Be Inaccuracy In Comedy?

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

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!

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

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.

How Could A Guy Sitting In A Cave In Afghanistan, Have... Plotted So Perfectly The Hijacking Of Four Planes And Then Guaranteed That Three Of Them Would End Up Precisely On Their Targets?

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.

The Majority Of Americans, The Ones Who Never Elected George W. Bush, Are Not Fooled By His Weapons Of Mass Distraction.

Who Among Us Is Not At A Loss For Words? Tears Pour Out. Tears Of Joy. Tears Of Relief. A Stunning, Whopping Landslide Of Hope In A Time Of Deep Despair. In A Nation That Was Founded On Genocide And Then Built On The Backs Of Slaves, It Was An Unexpected Moment, Shocking In Its Simplicity: Barack Obama, A Good Man, A Black Man, Said He Would Bring Change To Washington, And The Majority Of The Country Liked That Idea.

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

Capitalism Means That A Few People Will Do Very Well, And The Rest Will Serve The Few.

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.'

Every Parent Wants To Do What's Best For Their Child. Whatever I Can Afford, I'm Going To Get My Kid The Best Education I Can Get.

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

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.

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.

I Say Stupid White Men Are Always The Problem. That's Never Going To Change.

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

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

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

There's Over A Billion People On This Planet That Don't Have Access To Clean Drinking Water.

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!

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.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

My Dad Was An Autoworker, My Mom Was A Clerk. Until I Was Thirty-five, I Never Made More Than Fifteen Thousand Dollars A Year.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm Interested To See What Happens With Fox News And Phone Hacking. I Really Can't Believe It Just Happens In Great Britain. Because Really, Who Cares About Just Hacking Phones Over There?

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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.

Sometimes It's Important To Vote - You Know, To Make A Statement, To Make A Point; Certainly, Many Of Us Who Were Involved In The Nader Campaign In 2000 Felt That Way.

A Newspaper Is A Public Trust, And We Will Suffer As A Society Without Them. It Is Not The Internet That Has Killed Them. It Is Their Own Greed, It Is Their Own Stupidity, And It Is Capitalism That Has Taken Our Daily Newspapers From Us.

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

I Have Never Owned A Share Of Stock In My Life, And The Only Time I've Double Dipped Into Anything Is At The Snack Tray.

One Day There'll Be No Need For Me. I'm Actually Hoping To Put Myself Out Of Business.

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

Occupy Has To Continue As A Bold, In-your-face Movement - Occupying Banks, Corporate Headquarters, Board Meetings, Campuses And Wall Street Itself. We Need Weekly - If Not Daily - Nonviolent Assaults Right On Wall Street.

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

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.

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.

So Is There A Difference Between Democrats And Republicans? Sure. The Democrats Say One Thing ("save The Planet!") And Then Do Another--quietly Holding Hands Behind The Scenes With The Bastards Who Make This World A Dirtier, Meaner Place. The Republicans Just Come Right Out And Give The Bastards A Corner Office In The West Wing. That's The Difference.

If You Reduce The Guns And The Ammo, You'll Reduce The Murders.

The Products Built In The Factories Of G.m., Ford And Chrysler Are Some Of The Greatest Weapons Of Mass Destruction Responsible For Global Warming And The Melting Of Our Polar Icecaps.

Mass Destruction

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.

I'm Not A Big Believer In Our Copyright Laws; I Find Them Way Too Restrictive.

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?

I - Honestly, I Don't Know Of A Worse Lie One Could Tell Other Than A Lie To Take A Country To War. To Make Up Things To Take People To War. That's Just Got To Be The Most Obscene, Immoral Thing To Do.

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

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

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.

Yeah, I Think Of What I Do As A Work Of Journalism. It's More Like The Op-ed Page, Though. These Are My Opinions. My Point Of View. The Opinions Are Mine And I Let You Make Up Your Own Mind.

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

Making A Difference

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

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