Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
I like America to some extent.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
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.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
I get called 'controversial' all the time.
I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.
I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?
Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.
But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.
Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?
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