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
The Awful Truth. We actually left the country and went to Great Britain and got Channel Four over there to produce and finance this show.
It used to be if you worked hard and the company prospered, you prospered, ... Now, the company prospers -- but you lose your job.
The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?
The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.
We're having a run like we've never had before. And it's fun.
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
Those of us who are sick and tired of cutting up animals on the beach are sick and tired of cutting up right whales. It's embarrassing the number of animals I've had to work up and it's unfathomable that we haven't been able to reduce these (deaths) more than we have.
They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.
You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.
a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor , who would unify us. This controversial nominee . . . will get very careful scrutiny from the Senate and from the American people.
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 think we're going to have the best chance with Clark.
People are focusing on issues that are not of paramount interest,
I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.