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The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
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Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
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I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.
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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those Think different posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King was, How do you make the world a better place?
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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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You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
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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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In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
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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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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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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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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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