Michael Moore
If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.Collection: Money
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Humor
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.Collection: Art
I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.Collection: Women
If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.Collection: Equality
The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.Collection: Medical
What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'Collection: Attitude
We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.
If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.
Documentaries are a form of journalism.
My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
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.
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
I think movies are too long.
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.
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.
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'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.
All art is about appealing to emotion.
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
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.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
I don't talk in sound bites.
The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.
Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.
All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.
Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.
I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.
I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.
I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.
They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.