This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an innovative kind of cartel—an arrangement I have termed America’s political duopoly. Both parties lie about the fact that they have each sold out to the financial sector and the wealthy. So far both have largely gotten away with the lie, helped in part by the enormous amount of money now spent on deceptive, manipulative political advertising.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.