Today Just 400 Americans Have More Wealth

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?

Sometimes It's Important To Vote - You Know, To Make A Statement, To Make A Point; Certainly, Many Of Us Who Were Involved In The Nader Campaign In 2000 Felt That Way.

First Of All, The American People Are Inundated With Advertisement After Advertisement Of You Buy, Buy, Buy. You've Got To Have The Latest Thing. The Ipad 1 Isn't Any Good Anymore, You've Got To Have The Ipad 2. The Iphone 4, Now You've Got To Have Iphone 4s. Now You've Got To Have The 5b, Now You've Got To Have The 6c.

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.

We Are Not Documentarians, We Are Filmmakers.