The Idea That Cinema Can Be Dangerous

I'm Actually A Fairly Conservative Person. I Live A Very Conservative Lifestyle.

I Mean If Politics Was My Main Motivation I Would Be Doing Politics. But I'm A Filmmaker.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

A Government Run By Billionaires For Billionaires Is An Affront To Freedom And Morality And Humanity.

I Was Kind Of A Strange Child. My Parents Knew Early On That Something Must Have Been Wrong With Me. I Crawled Backwards Until I Was Two, But Had Kennedy's Inaugural Address Memorized By The Time I Was Six.