Morello, Tom Filmography

• Forward
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Shadow Nation
  2013, role: actor
• The 55th Annual Grammy Awards
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Four Days in Chicago
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Let Fury Have the Hour
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Occupy Unmasked
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Occupy Los Angeles
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Capitalism Is the Crisis
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Capitalism Ts the Crisis
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Rage Factor: Rage Against the Machine Live from London
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Sounds Like a Revolution
  2010, role: actor
• Rage Against the Machine: Live on the BBC
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Iron Maiden: Flight 666
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• PoliWood
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Iron Man
  2008, role: actor , character name: Guard
• Chevolution
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Open the Debates: Super Rally in Denver, CO 2008
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guitarist, Audioslave
• Captain Mike Across America
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Air Guitar Nation
  2006, role: actor , character name: Los Angeles Judge
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• React Now: Music & Relief
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Berkeley
  2005, role: actor , character name: Blue
• Audioslave: Live@Much
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Audioslave: Live in Cuba
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Work of Director Mark Romanek
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Words and Music in Honor of Fahrenheit 9/11
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• I Love the '90s
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• I Love the '80s Strikes Back
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Rage Against the Machine: Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
  2003, role: composer
• The Ultimate Song
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Made
  2001, role: actor , character name: Best Man
• Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Mexico City
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• MTV Video Music Awards 2000
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Free Tibet
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Star Trek: Insurrection
  1998, role: actor , character name: Son'a Officer
• Rage Against the Machine
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Tom Morello:

"It's not like we just changed a rapper for a singer, ... We happen to have one of the greatest rock singers of all time."

"We were all against the war from the very beginning, ... But now, I think you're seeing more and more that Middle America is turning against the war for reasons that are described in this video. The real human cost, the human tally of this awful war is shown in a very subtle, very real and very humanistic way. That's why it has such a great weight to it, because it personalizes this tragedy that's happening halfway around the world."

"We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,"

"It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe."

"[On the first tour] we wanted to make our own music without using our old bands, mixing the past with our present, ... Now we are drawing on 10, 11, 12 records, which is amazing. It doesn't sound weird, it doesn't sound bad. It just fucking rocks."

"The video tells a very simple story and a very real story. It's a story of a woman who loses her husband and a child who loses his father. That's the simple story. The bigger picture is that the culture of violence at home breeds a culture of violence abroad, and there's a price to be paid for that. And that price is the loss of lives and families destroyed and to sum that up in a three-and-a-half-minute video is something that was pretty incredible."

"We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects."

"Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions."

"And I think that on this record, we've accomplished the mission we set out at the beginning of the first rehearsals. And that was, not to just make the best Rage Against the Machine record, but to make the best Rage record by a wide margin. We've made the heaviest record to date and it's our funkiest record to date."

"A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,"

"I came late to the genre of folk music."

"I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago."

"Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there."

"The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider."

"My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement."

"I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop."

"I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders."

"Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue."

"The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building."