Michael Moore
Michael Moore
Michael Francis Mooreis an American documentary filmmaker and author. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which is the highest-grossing documentary at the American boxoffice of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His film Bowling for Columbine, which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 April 1954
CityFlint, MI
CountryUnited States of America
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.
The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.
We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.
There's nothing pure about capitalism.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.
We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.