Those are my 13 points, I'm sorry this took so long, but I'm very passionate about this, because I want nonfiction films to be seen by millions and millions of people. It's a crime that they aren't. And for a long time I blamed the distributors, blamed the studios, blamed the financiers -- and really, we should take just a few moments to blame ourselves as the filmmakers. Are we making these movies to be seen in movie theaters? I want to see movies in a movie theater! I don't want to watch something on an iPhone. Ever. Now that's probably just my age, I understand young people do that. But I tell young people, if you're watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone, I want to tell you something -- you're not watching Lawrence of Arabia. I don't know what to call that, but you're not watching a movie. The U.S. Postal Service a few years ago created a Mona Lisa stamp, a 32-cent Mona Lisa stamp. Spoiler alert! That wasn't the Mona Lisa. That was a stamp, with the Mona Lisa's likeness on the stamp. So, I'm sorry, you haven't ever seen the Mona Lisa. If you want to see the Mona Lisa, get a frigging passport and find your way to Paris. They like movies there, too.
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*Michael Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His films Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Sicko (2007) also placed in the top 10 highest-grossing documentaries, and the former won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.
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