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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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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney
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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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The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
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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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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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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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No one likes documentaries.
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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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In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.
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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'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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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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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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The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.
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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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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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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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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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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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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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