Tom Morello

Morello, Tom Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Forward

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Shadow Nation

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The 55th Annual Grammy Awards

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen Four Days in Chicago

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Let Fury Have the Hour

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Occupy Unmasked

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Occupy Los Angeles

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Capitalism Is the Crisis

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Capitalism Ts the Crisis

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Rage Factor: Rage Against the Machine Live from London

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sounds Like a Revolution

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Rage Against the Machine: Live on the BBC

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Iron Maiden: Flight 666

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen PoliWood

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Iron Man

  2008, role: actor , character name: Guard
• Play in Full Screen Chevolution

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Open the Debates: Super Rally in Denver, CO 2008

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guitarist, Audioslave
• Play in Full Screen Captain Mike Across America

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Air Guitar Nation

  2006, role: actor , character name: Los Angeles Judge
• Play in Full Screen Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen React Now: Music & Relief

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Berkeley

  2005, role: actor , character name: Blue
• Play in Full Screen Audioslave: Live@Much

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Audioslave: Live in Cuba

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Work of Director Mark Romanek

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Words and Music in Honor of Fahrenheit 9/11

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Love the '90s

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Love the '80s Strikes Back

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rage Against the Machine: Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium

  2003, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen The Ultimate Song

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Made

  2001, role: actor , character name: Best Man
• Play in Full Screen Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Mexico City

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 2000

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen Free Tibet

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Star Trek: Insurrection

  1998, role: actor , character name: Son'a Officer
• Play in Full Screen 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."

Tom Morello