Alex Gibney Inspirational Quotes (33)

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call noble cause corruption, the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.