Michael Moore: ‘Hollywood Is So White and So Male’

Michael Moore: "Hollywood Is So White And So Male" (RealClearPolitics)

MICHAEL MOORE: I said I stand with Spike [Lee] and Jada [Smith]. This is wrong. Not just in terms of the Oscars but really it's the industry. I mean, I just served a term recently on board of governors a couple years ago on the Oscars. Representing the documentary branch.

And I know that amongst the board of governors and the people that run the academy, they are absolutely disgusted with this all-white nature that keeps happening every year.

I think they're going to fix it. I think I and others who symbolically stand with Spike and Jada will help this along. But it's the industry, Chris. It's an industry that's an all -- it's an industry that's so white and so male...

And the academy, too. Demographically too, the actual voters... because they work in this industry. Literally I can go to L.A. for two or three days, let's say if I got to take some meetings for my next movie or whatever... But I literally can go in, they put me in a West Hollywood hotel. I can go to a meeting in Century City, a meeting in Burbank and Santa Monica and three days later, I've not encountered a single African-American in any position of any decision making power or authority. It is stunning how segregated the town is, how the industry is."