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
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.
Before there were unions, there was no middle class.
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
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.
Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
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.
People are focusing on issues that are not of paramount interest,
I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!
When the city doesn't follow the law, what's the alternative?
We think the people who have paid the bill, the taxpayers of this country, ought to be reimbursed for that.
We think the industry ought to be punished for what they've done in the past, killing millions of Americans, and we are going to do that.
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.
I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.