Lexi Alexander Quotes

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

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.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

The best cinema is about ethics.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

If the opportunity offers, the Cynic [philosopher] must speak up on the public platform …. You must be able to explain to individuals as well as to a crowd of people the battle they're embroiled in

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.