I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still… — Charles Ferguson Cinema Copy Share Image
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population… — Charles Ferguson Angry Copy Share Image
I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict… — Charles Ferguson Entrepreneurial Copy Share Image
I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of… — Charles Ferguson Decided Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry… — Charles Ferguson Accidents Copy Share Image
When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about. — Charles Ferguson Crisis Copy Share Image
But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well… — Charles Ferguson Becoming successful Copy Share Image
I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't… — Charles Ferguson Business Copy Share Image
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was… — Charles Ferguson Cinema Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore… — Charles Ferguson Challenges Copy Share Image
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it. — Charles Ferguson Can do Copy Share Image
A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese… — Charles Ferguson Able Copy Share Image
Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a… — Charles Ferguson Crisis Copy Share Image
Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult. — Charles Ferguson Difficult Copy Share Image
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is… — Charles Ferguson Addiction Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism. — Charles Ferguson Interest Copy Share Image
It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date… — Charles Ferguson Caress Copy Share Image
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have… — Charles Ferguson Advertising Copy Share Image
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions… — Charles Ferguson Administration Copy Share Image