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

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.