After weeks of string-pulling and days of stalking, Recess writer Corinne Low caught up with Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore. It was worth it. The king of controversy speaks:
On his new film, Fahrenheit 911:
"It essentially is a comedy about 9/11. I don't say that to be trite; I think humor can be a very powerful weapon."
On alternative ways of finding funding:
"We've been trying to find out exactly where Osama bin Laden is, because there's a $25 million reward. Part of [Fahrenheit 911] is my search for Osama. I went and got one of those blind clerics, and paid him to go out and search.... And I promised him I'd split the reward."
On whether Flint, MI will make a cameo appearance in Fahrenheit 911:
"Am I that predictable now? Oh, here comes the old Flint scene, okay, let's go get some popcorn. You know [with Bowling for Columbine], we said "we're not going to head to Flint"... and then the six-year-old shot the six-year-old, and how could we not [cover] that? And then with this film, we said, "Okay, we're not going to go to Flint," and then it turns out... the number of kids who have been killed in Iraq from the Flint area is way over the national average."
On his famous anti-Bush Oscar speech:
"Part of me didn't want to say anything. Part of me just wanted to blow them a kiss and get off the stage. And the other part of me said, "You have to say something." If I'd been wrong, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we were forty-five minutes away from oblivion, I don't think I would have been invited back this year."
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