American - Activist | April 23, 1954 -
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Michael Moore
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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
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I think movies are too long.
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People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
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There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.
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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.
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I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.
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All art is about appealing to emotion.
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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
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Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.
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Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.
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