I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish….

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genr….

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He li….

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

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts dependin….

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. B….

It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester s….

There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you….

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day..

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know a….

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's l….

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do ….

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once ….

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

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean..

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised..

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….

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe ….

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democ….

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories..

The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So the early takes are actually easier and I ….