I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

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

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.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.