I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.
I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
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.
I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.
I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.
A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.
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.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.
We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
There's nothing pure about capitalism.
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
Politicians never keep all their promises.