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In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.
Alex Gibney
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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
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Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
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Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.
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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.
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
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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.
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If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.
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I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?
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I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
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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.
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In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
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The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
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