Quotes from Michael Moore

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

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.

Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General."

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

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.

I don't talk in sound bites.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

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

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?

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

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.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.