I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

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.

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.

I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

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 had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.