Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So the early takes are actually easier and I think there's more surprises in them.

Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message--wisdom.

If you are smart, you will be attracted towards beautiful.If you are beautiful, well, then, you'll assume you are smart & you will be attracted towards beautiful.

My destination is only 50 miles away, all I have is a bike with a broken wheel.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

Don't be scared. I'll look after you.

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.