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

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.