As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

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.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

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

You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.