I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.

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.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

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