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
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.
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.
The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.
A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
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.
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.'
Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.