Michael Moore Quotes

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I make movies I want to see.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.