“After making the 'Occupy' movie, when you finish watching the film, you want to take a hot shower. You want to go home and shower because you've just spent an hour and fifteen minutes with the greasiest, dirtiest people you will ever see.”

“An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.”

“Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.”

“Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.”

“Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.”

“Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.”

“Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.”

“George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, 'Under no circumstances will Trump ever be president. Hillary Clinton will be the next president.' Well, we can't wait to make George Clooney eat his words.”

“Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.”

“Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.”

“I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.”

“I can see this on Wall Street today - I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don't believe that our forefathers had that same belief.”

“I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.”

“I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.”

“I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.”

“I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.”

“I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it's what can see us forward.”

“I think that most people in the Middle East, at least 50%, believe in being sharia-compliant. If you're sharia-compliant or want to impose sharia law, the United States is the wrong place for you.”

“I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.”

“I think the discussion of, you know, can we put a cap on wealth creation and distribution - it's something that should be at the heart of every Christian that is a capitalist. Is, what is the purpose I'm doing with this wealth?”

“I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.”

“If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.”

“I'm a commercial filmmaker.”

“I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment.”

“I'm a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School; I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it's a very, very tough environment.”

“I'm an economic nationalist. I am an 'America first' guy. And I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations make great neighbors. I've also said repeatedly that the ethno-nationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will change over time. I've never been a supporter of ethno-nationalism.”

“I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.”

“I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.”

“Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.”

“It was pretty evident, I think, the direction the country was going, and that's why I think Donald Trump offered such a clear alternative to that from Hillary Clinton.”

“It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.”

“I've studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I'm a student of Michael Moore's films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.”

“Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.”

“One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.”

“That's one of the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement - that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.”

“The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.”

“The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.”

“The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.”

“The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

“The rise of Breitbart is directly tied to being the voice of that center-right opposition. And, quite frankly, we're winning many, many victories. On the social conservative side, we're the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we're winning victory after victory after victory.”

“The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they're going to comport themselves and how they're going to run things.”

“There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.”

“There is voter fraud. I know there is voter fraud.”

“This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.”

“This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.”

“To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.”

“Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.”

“We don't believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that.”

“What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.”

“What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.”

“What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.”

“You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.”