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" I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. "

Michael Moore

Medicine

Humor

Serious

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" If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' "

" 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. "

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Four

Now

" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "

" Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for. "

" There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. "

Michael Moore

Made

" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "

" I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off. "

" The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. "

Michael Moore

Liberal

Name

" Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open. "

" The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. "

" I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. "

" I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. "

" I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. "

Michael Moore

Work

Compromise

" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "

" There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working. "

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

Michael Moore

People

Blessed

" When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. "

" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "

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

" Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state. "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. "

" When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office. "

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

" I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. "