Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

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

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.