I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

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.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.