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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
Alex Gibney
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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
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New York City
New York
Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney
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No one likes documentaries.
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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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It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
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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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Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
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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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As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view.
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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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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.
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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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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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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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In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
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You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.
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With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
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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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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.
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