What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.