I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.