Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

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.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.