I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'