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.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.