What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.