Charles Ferguson Quotes

#1. I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

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#2. I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

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#3. Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong,

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#4. When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

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#5. A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life.

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#6. It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

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#7. A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

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#8. Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

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#9. I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

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#10. When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

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#11. I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

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#12. WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

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