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
Those of us who are sick and tired of cutting up animals on the beach are sick and tired of cutting up right whales. It's embarrassing the number of animals I've had to work up and it's unfathomable that we haven't been able to reduce these (deaths) more than we have.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
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.