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.
— Michael Moore
I think movies are too long.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
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?
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.
If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
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?
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.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.
I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.
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.
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
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 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?'
My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
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.
All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.
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.
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.
Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
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.
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.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.
Documentaries are a form of journalism.
I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'
We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.
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.
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?
I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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.
