I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.