Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

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.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

I like America to some extent.

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.

Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

White people scare the crap out of me.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.