I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.