[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

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.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

No one is entertained by economics.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

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