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
We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
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.
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.
For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.
I see the show as (a cross between) the World Wrestling Federation and C-SPAN. If you can kind of imagine those two together, that's what we're doing.
Bill Gates is worth $97 billion. Ninety-seven billion, that is equal to the net worth of 120 million Americans. How did he get that rich? He ain't that smart.
Every dog deserves to have its day in the spotlight.
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.
You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.
We're working through the heart, then we go to the lungs, and so far we've found nothing.