Michael Moore
Michael Moore
Michael Francis Mooreis an American documentary filmmaker and author. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which is the highest-grossing documentary at the American boxoffice of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His film Bowling for Columbine, which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 April 1954
CityFlint, MI
CountryUnited States of America
How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.
It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.
I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.
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?
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.
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.
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 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.