Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

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.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.