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.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

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?

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.