Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

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

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

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.

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.