"Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."
"The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich."
"I like America to some extent."
"I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do."
"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."
"White people scare the crap out of me."
"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."
"Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English."
"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win."
"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."
"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction."
"A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration."
"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."
"Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever."
"When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained."
"If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble."
"Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing."
"I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off."
"There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives."
"I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker."
"As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices."
"But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time."
"I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code."
"Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried."
