Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwaldis an American television, feature film and documentary filmmaker, and political activist. Greenwald is founder and president of Brave New Films He has produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries and films as well as major theatrical releases. His early body of work includes Steal This Movie!, starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60s radical Abbie Hoffman; Breaking Up, starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek; A Woman of Independent Meanswith Sally Field; The Burning Bed with Farah Fawcett; and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 August 1943
CountryUnited States of America
If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.
Before I even shot one second of footage, I hired an organizer.
You couldn't do these films with the old technology, ... It's tremendously exciting for the way it continues to democratize the process, from making the films to distributing them.
O'Reilly has simply lost his mind, ... I demand that O'Reilly apologize.
It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
What I always try to do is make the political personal.
Ideology has consequences.
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.
The plan is to overwhelm Washington on February 26,
The critical work that the ACLU is doing is the stuff of real drama. These are regular people, people who could be a neighbor, who have found themselves fighting to defend their constitutionally-guaranteed rights. These are important and powerful stories that we need to tell.