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
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.
I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.
I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.
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.
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.
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.
Not many people gave us a chance for this little old lawsuit,
The Christian Mission does well ... and they have helped lots of homeless people. But the New Life Program cannot go on out there where we live ... I have thought hard about it, prayed hard about it, and talked to my grandfather about it. We cannot have this in our neighborhood.
I hadn't even thought about it -- you're making me nervous.
I'm happy that he's taken the steps that I, and others, have pushed for. The biggest change is for them to say they will employ no one under the age of 18. I've been pushing for that for over a year now, so I'm very happy that he's come this far, this fast. I honestly didn't think that five weeks after the movie came out they would do this.
It used to be if you worked hard and the company prospered, you prospered, ... Now, the company prospers -- but you lose your job.