Michael Moore People Quotations

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

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.

If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

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?

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

On the financial end, the product doesn't matter much. Bloomingdale's was a fantastic experience. The people were top-notch, and New York City was a very exhilarating experience. But I've discovered I enjoy specialty retail more than department stores.

People like me and people who live in factory towns just don't believe it.

People are focusing on issues that are not of paramount interest,

I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

We think the people who have paid the bill, the taxpayers of this country, ought to be reimbursed for that.

Not many people gave us a chance for this little old lawsuit,

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

You will ensure that the American people will see this movie,

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

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

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

White people scare the crap out of me.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.