I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

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I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door,...

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There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you...

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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm...

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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no...

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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies...

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

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Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors...

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There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And...

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In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're...

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To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs...

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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going...

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Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you...

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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy...

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The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.