The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

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.